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Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio speaks during the 2019 Kolbe Ministries statewide conference at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in San Antonio July 20, 2019. (CNS photo/James Ramos, Texas Catholic Herald)

Texas prison ministries bring grace, sacraments behind bars

Posted by - September 8, 2019
SAN ANTONIO (CNS) — Crowding around a painted portrait of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish friar who died in a German concentration camp during World War II, prison inmates and…
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Father Michael Daly holds a monstrance with the Eucharist during Faith and Football Camp Aug. 7, 2019, at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minn. The three-day camp featured football drills and scrimmages mixed in with Mass, rosary, Stations of the Cross and adoration. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, Catholic Spirit)

Summer camp combined football drills, scrimmages with Mass, adoration

Posted by - September 8, 2019
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — Boys on the sideline of the football practice field at Cretin-Derham Hall High School this summer fell silent one afternoon as they waited for the…
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Stories of Faith and Favors

Posted by - August 23, 2019
They say favors granted from heaven are graces that remind us that there is a God who hears the prayers of those who intercede for us. Mother Margarita, like Saint…
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Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Aug. 15, 2019, the feast of the Assumption. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Assumption feast invites people to look to heaven with hope, pope says

Posted by - August 23, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Mary’s assumption into heaven calls people to put aside all those insignificant, mundane and petty concerns competing for their attention and instead be drawn to God…
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Pope Francis speaks at the second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, July 9, 2015. Popular movements can spark the change needed to ensure a future that is no longer in the hands of elites and powerful people, but includes the poor, Pope Francis has written in the preface for a book to be published in September. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Popular movements key to social change, pope says

Posted by - August 23, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Popular movements can spark the change needed to ensure a future that is no longer in the hands of elites and powerful people, but includes the…
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JD Duran, a member of St. Charles Parish in Portland, Ore., speaks Aug. 3, 2019, during the national Singles for Christ conference in Portland and shares how he struggled with his degenerative nerve disorder before finding solace in God. (CNS photo/Katie Scott, Catholic Sentinel)

Singles for Christ organization grounds daily life, says meeting attendee

Posted by - August 23, 2019
PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — JD Duran was 2 when his parents noticed something was off. He could run and walk, but he was tripping far more than a typical toddler.…
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Central American migrants are seen July 31, 2019, returning from the U.S. to Nuevo Laredo in Mexico under the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols to wait for their court hearing for asylum-seekers in Monterrey, Mexico. (CNS photo/Daniel Becerril, Reuters)

Faith leaders ask for end to Trump administration rule for asylum-seekers

Posted by - August 23, 2019
SILVER SPRING, Md. (CNS) — Calling it “a backdoor asylum ban,” more than 250 faith leaders and organizations called for an end to the Trump administration’s policy to turn away…
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