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Violent acts in houses of worship are rare but deadly — here’s what the data shows
Tragedies like the Sept. 28, 2025 shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan are part of a longer pattern.
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Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why …
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St. Faustina—O my Jesus, each of your saints reflects one of your virtues; I desire to reflect your compassionate heart…
O my Jesus, each of your saints reflects one of your virtues; I desire to reflect your compassionate heart, full of mercy; I want to glorify it. Let your mercy, …
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Oct. 5 Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday
Gospel Excerpt, Lk 17:5-10: “If one of you had a servant plowing or herding sheep and he came in from the fields, would you say to him, ‘Come and sit …
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From Satanist priest to canonized saint: The remarkable redemption of Bartolo Longo
“Satanic priest becomes canonized saint” sounds like a headline from a trashy tabloid, but on October 19, 2025, it will be true. Since his beatification in 1980, the story of …
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Where Is St. Junípero Serra? Mystery Over Missing Freeway Landmark
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone joins Vigil participants on July 1, 2020, at the St. Junípero Serra Statue along I-280 in California. California transportation officials say the Serra statue failed …
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A sculpture of love, not of rage
“I describe my sculptures as being visual prayers,” says Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz. A case in point is the artist’s famous “Homeless Jesus,” which depicts Jesus asleep on a park …
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Pope Leo XIV signs first apostolic exhortation, ‘Dilexi te’
Pope Leo XIV signs his first apostolic exhortation, ‘Dilexi te’, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2025 / 14:39 pm (CNA). …
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Pope Leo XIV signs first apostolic exhortation, 'Dilexi te'
Pope Leo XIV signs his first apostolic exhortation, ‘Dilexi te’, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2025 / 14:39 pm (CNA). …
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ASIA/SRI LANKA – Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle visits Seminaries
Colombo – The official visit of Father Guy Bognon , Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle, to Sri Lanka, concluded today with the ordination of …