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Debris is left along Bourbon Street after a pickup truck was driven into a large crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025. A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens before being shot to death by police, authorities said.

NOLA archbishop: ‘God always gives us hope, even in the midst of tragic situations’

January 2, 2025
Inside the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France for the celebration of the 11 a.m. Mass on Jan. 1 -- the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God -- Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond and 600 worshipers struggled to make ...
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Migrants are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Sunland Park, N.M., Oct. 24, 2024, after they crossed into the United States from Mexico. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Catholic groups advocate for immigrants amid new administration, Congress

November 22, 2024
Catholic organizations have reiterated their "solidarity with immigrants" and shared what the first 100 days of a second Trump administration may bring on immigration policy.
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A Roman collar is seen on display at the International Religious Products and Services Exhibition in Bologna, Italy, Feb. 13, 2024. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)

Survivor advocates call for universal ‘zero tolerance’ of clerical abuse

November 21, 2024
A watchdog group in the U.S. is applauding calls to make "zero tolerance" for clerical abuse the rule for the worldwide Church.
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Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson offers an opening prayer at a rally Nov. 17, 2024, on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis to call on Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb to halt the execution of Joseph Corcoran scheduled for Dec. 18. It would be the first execution in the state in more than a decade. The rally was sponsored by the Indiana Abolition Coalition. Activists pushing President Joe Biden to commute existing federal death sentences during his final months in office hope that if he does that, his action could be "the beginning of the end" of the death penalty at the federal and state levels. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)

Report examines ‘persistent racial disparities’ in federal death penalty use

November 20, 2024
A new report by the Death Penalty Information Center examined what it called persistent racial disparities in federal death penalty prosecutions.
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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike as displaced Palestinians make their way to flee areas in the eastern part of Khan Younis following an Israeli evacuation order, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Oct. 7, 2024. (OSV News photo/Hatem Khaled, Reuters)

Pope calls for investigation of possible genocide in Gaza

November 19, 2024
Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel's military actions in Gaza constitute genocide.
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A bird flies over the statue of the Risen Christ on top of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during Pope Francis' weekly general audience Nov. 13, 2024. The motto of a U.S. youth ministry called the Dead Theologians Society is "mortuum mundo, vivum in Christo" ("dead to the world, alive in Christ,"), which echoes St. Paul's call in Romans 6:11 to be completely transformed in accord with Christ's death and resurrection. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Dead Theologians Society brings new life to youth ministry

November 18, 2024
A youth ministry founded by a former rock drummer is sounding the call to grow closer to Christ by imitating the lives of the saints, and by praying for the souls in purgatory.
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the Virgin of Paris or the Virgin of the Pillar, is Notre Dame Cathedral's most emblematic object.

Our Lady’s statue will be the first one to return to her Notre Dame Cathedral

November 15, 2024
In what is seen by the church of Paris as a triumphant return, the famous statue of the Virgin of the Pillar will be restored to her place in Notre Dame Cathedral Nov. 15.
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