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Once shunned and forgotten, Little Sisters of the Poor founder Jeanne Jugan now shines 

August 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Portrait of St. Jeanne Jugan (1792–1879), foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, by Léon Brune 1855. / Public domain

Paris, France, Aug 30, 2023 / 02:00 am (CNA).
The French saint Jeanne Jugan (1792–1879), whose feast day is celebrated Au… […]

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New commentary embraces, explains the first book of the Bible

August 29, 2023 CWR Staff 7

Stephen K. Ray was raised in a devout and loving Baptist family. His father was a deacon and Bible teacher, and Stephen was very involved in his local Baptist church as a teacher of biblical […]

The Dispatch

Lessons from the life of a good and holy bishop: Blessed Alfredo Schuster

August 29, 2023 Dawn Beutner 3

The Italian city of Milan has been blessed with many saintly shepherds over the centuries. From Saint Ambrose in the fourth century to Saint Paul VI in the twentieth, many archbishops of Milan have later […]

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Boy in Brazil asks for — and receives — a chapel for his birthday

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Maganha family with Father Gilson Maia, RCJ, who blessed the chapel, on July 9, 2023. / Credit: Maganha family

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Little André Luiz Maganha asked his parents for a chapel as a present for his se… […]

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Church in Mexico prays with relatives of disappeared persons

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega presides over a Mass for the disappeared in Jalisco state, Mexico, on Aug. 27, 2023. / Credit: Press Archbishopric of Guadalajara

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
This past week, the Catholic Chu… […]

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Mrs. American 2023 winner gives powerful pro-life response during pageant 

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Hannah Neeleman, 33, is a mother of seven who gave a powerful pro-life response to a question asked during the Mrs. American 2023 pageant. / Credit: Screenshot from @ballerinafarm on Instagram

Denver, Colo., Aug 29, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).
Hanna… […]

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Family life, ‘bonding together’ behind spread of Christianity in Africa, U.S. bishop says

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishop John Patrick Dolan of the Diocese of Phoenix visited the African nations of Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya in August 2023 for a tour of projects connected to the U.S. bishops’ conference’s Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa. / Credit: … […]

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104-year-old ‘Sister Jean’ throws out first pitch at Chicago Cubs game

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt at the first round game of the NCAA Tournament in Dallas on March 15, 2018. / Lukas Keapproth/Loyola University Chicago

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA).
Jean Dolores Schmidt, a Catholic relig… […]

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Pope Francis: People — not machines — are the value of work

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis speaks at the general audience on Aug. 23, 2023. / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Aug 29, 2023 / 11:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis told a group of entrepreneurs this week that work’s greatest value comes from human beings, not from machin… […]

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Vatican reassures Ukrainian Catholics that pope did not intend to praise Russian imperialism

August 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis and Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. / Mazur/cbcew.org.uk/Олександр Гаврик via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Rome Newsroom, Aug 29, 2023 / 10:34 am (CNA).
After the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church expressed “great pa… […]

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