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The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage enters St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in St. Louis. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Jul 10, 2024 / 09:33 am (CNA). Pam White was raised Catholic but left the Church in 1984, in part because the homilies weren’t speaking to her.  It was the Eucharist — and the fact that…

The front of the Phat Diem Cathedral, Vietnam. / Credit: Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) CNA Newsroom, Jul 10, 2024 / 10:03 am (CNA). Eleven Vietnamese Christians, including five Catholics, are reportedly missing from detention, according to a recent report from International Christian Concern (ICC), a U.S.-based advocacy group. The ICC report, released on July 5,…

The entrance into the Franciscan church in Aleppo, Syria, of the twins George and Johnny Jallouf, friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, who were ordained priests on July 6, 2024. The two ordinands are wearing the priestly vestments with which they were clothed during the ordination rite. They were 15 when the war…

Pope Francis greets medical workers administering the vaccine against COVID-19 April 2, 2021. / Credit: Holy See Press Office ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 10, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). “Everything possible must be done to keep the churches open and operational,” said Dr. José María Simón Castellví, president emeritus of the International Federation of Catholic…