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Hicks: Vocations week a ‘beautiful witness of those who have responded to God’s call to serve’

by OSV News

National Vocation Awareness Week — which this year began Nov. 1 and ends Nov. 7 — “reminds us of the beautiful witness of those who have responded to …

Catholics work for peace at the polls, as US heads into midterm elections
Pope Leo XIV offers All Souls’ Day Mass in cemetery, encouraging Catholics to pray for the dead
Friars, miters and ‘That’s Amore’: Notre Dame beats Villanova in basketball season opener
Washington Letter: Pope Leo’s history-making US ballot models ‘faithful citizenship’
For Pope Leo, Peru trip is more homecoming than state visit

U.S. Church

Pilgrims at Georgia Martyrs’ beatification admire the friars’ missionary zeal, defense of marriage

by Lauretta Brown

Pilgrims poured in from all over Georgia, the United States and even around the world to honor five 16th-century Franciscan martyrs were given the title “blessed” on Oct. …

At Nov. 1 Mass of thanksgiving, archbishop says beatified Georgia Martyrs ‘are on their way to being saints’

Pilgrims at Georgia Martyrs’ beatification admire the friars’ missionary zeal, defense of marriage

‘Unconquered heralds of Christ’: Georgia Martyrs killed in 1597 for defending marriage beatified in Savannah

Interfaith migration policy summit seeks common ground on welcoming the stranger

Pew: Religion ‘stable’ in US, with ‘mixed signals’ from young adults

World

Two Peruvian bishops die on eve of papal visit

by David Agren

Archbishop Alarcón spent his first year in Cusco traveling the diocese, which includes urban areas, remote mountain villages and a jungle region. 

As Poland’s constitutional crisis spills into streets, bishops plead for reconciliation
From a secret seminary to the papacy: 80 years since St. John Paul II’s priestly ordination
Brother of slain Pakistani minister urges West to act as report finds Christian persecution worsens
For 800 years, they kept the prayers going; now Benedictine nuns face a $1 million deadline
Spain and its Church in shock, grief after high speed train collision leaves dozens dead

Who is St. Gregory the Illuminator?

Ethiopian Orthodox leaders call for justice, protection after 60 Christians killed in attacks

Pope Leo’s doctors confirm his visit to Latin America two weeks after lung surgery

Vatican

Pope receives letters from ICE detainees, pastoral workers in Chicago

by Carol Glatz

Opinion

Blaming Autumn: Unjust cranks in this excellent season of wonder

by Elizabeth Scalia

Beneath our division lies a crisis of dehumanization

by Vicente Del Real

The courage to risk death for life

by Katie Yoder

Reviews

You Can See Everything

by John Mulderig
Movie review: Wicker
Sense and Sensibility
The story of Jesus brings us together
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