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Military members visiting Lourdes make prayer kits for Ukrainian soldiers

Participants in an annual pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, for U.S. active-duty military personnel and veterans assembled 3,000 prayer kits for Ukrainian soldiers.

Catholic Charities’ $75 million residence and health care campus to prioritize veterans

An affordable home for 173 single adults who have experienced homelessness — particularly veterans — a recuperative care unit and a health care clinic will open soon in a $75 million public-private partnership in Minneapolis led by Catholic Charities, officials announced May 18.

Catholic college graduates praised for pandemic resilience

At Catholic college and university graduation ceremonies across the country, speakers praised students for lessons learned during these past four years that had nothing to do with classes, projects or late-night study sessions, but instead with how they adapted to their workload during the coronavirus pandemic.

Buffalo bishop lays flowers, personal prayer at mass shooting memorial

Bishop Michael W. Fisher of Buffalo joined mourners outside a Tops grocery store where 10 people were killed and three others were injured in what law enforcement authorities said was a racially motivated crime.

Biden administration defends giving migrant children baby formula

The White House said providing baby formula to migrants at the border, even as the country faces a shortage of it, is "morally the right thing to do."

Dual-language Risen Christ Catholic School in Minneapolis ascends to new life

Now debt free, Minnesota’s only Catholic dual language immersion school prepares low-income students for success

A priest, a psychologist and a college president: Meet Father James Burns

Father James Burns has been recognized as an outstanding Minnesota leader. He relies on his psychology doctorate, his priestly formation and his Lasallian values in his role as president of St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, which includes a Minneapolis campus with bachelor’s completion and graduate programs in business, health and human services, and education.

Pope: Christian politics must be marked by love, respect

For politics to be "the highest form of charity," as Catholic social teaching promotes, it must be exercised with full respect and even love for those who disagree, Pope Francis said.

Bishops express sorrow, condemn racially motivated shooting in Buffalo

Several U.S. Catholic bishops expressed sorrow and called out racism and gun violence after reports of a May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left at least three injured and 10 dead -- a crime authorities categorized as likely motivated by hatred for Black people.

Vatican confirms pope will visit Indigenous in Canada in late July

Pope Francis will meet members of Canada's Indigenous communities in late July, visiting the cities of Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit in Nunavut, the country's most northern region.

Bishop prohibits prelature from accepting aid from those damaging Amazon

A Catholic prelature in Brazil's Amazon has decreed that its parishes will not accept donations from any person or company that displaces minorities or damages the earth.
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