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Three days after he was pistol-whipped and robbed, the pastor of St. Leo the Great Parish in Baltimore's Little Italy said he has been overwhelmed by support from his parish and the wider community.

When Dawn Hawkins started 12 years ago as a volunteer at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, it was a modest organization operating under the name under which it was founded 68 years ago—Morality in Media.

When Father Francis Galvan left Sacred Heart Church in Delta Nov. 15, he did not expect to find himself at the center of a catastrophic flood and what is being called the storm of the century.

A local Unitarian Universalist pastor and the head of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee issued statements urging calm in the days ahead after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges.

Pope Francis told young people that, with Jesus, people can find the courage to swim against the current, to be free and authentic, and to stand up for their dreams and ideals of truth, love, justice and peace.

Catholic opponents of the death penalty, including Oklahoma City's archbishop, praised the Nov. 18 announcement that the Oklahoma governor granted death-row inmate Julius Jones clemency—just hours before he was scheduled to be executed.