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St. John Paul II during an open-air Mass on June 9, 1991, in Warsaw, Poland. / Credit: JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 22, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). Catholics worldwide remember St. John Paul II on his feast day, Oct. 22. His “secret” to life and all that he did, he…

Blessed Theodore Romzha. Left: A painting in the Basilian monastery of Glen Cove, New York, painted in the 1980s. Photo taken by Josaphat Vladimir Timkovic, OSBM. Right: An icon of Theodore Romzha, St. Anthony’s Church at Russicum. / Credit: Misko3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vladimir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Detroit, Mich.,…

When the bells at St. Peter’s Basilica chimed nine o’clock on Saturday evening, hundreds of Catholics joined a candlelight rosary procession, praying the rosary in several languages as a steam of candles formed a lighted ribbon around the edges St. Peter’s Square. The Oct. 21 procession was the third to be held this month, as…

Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen, Germany at the Synod on Synodality press briefing Oct. 21, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Oct 21, 2023 / 12:40 pm (CNA). A German bishop participating in the Synod on Synodality challenged the idea that the Catholic community in his country is at odds with the universal Church…