Nick Ut, a retired Associated Press photographer, gave Pope Francis a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young Vietnamese girl running naked down the road after a napalm attack.
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How a tuition-free Jesuit school supports students from ‘fourth grade through a lifetime’
At Washington Jesuit Academy, students compete for honor roll in bright classrooms, whizzing around athletic fields during three daily recesses and learning a wide range of skills, from gardening to computer coding.
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Religious orders launch initiative to care for nuns with dementia
A $5 million donation is going to help launch the Catholic Sisters Cognitive Impairment-Alzheimer’s Global Initiative, a project to help religious orders care for sisters with dementia.
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Biden administration denounces protests against pro-life groups, including Catholic churches
Protests have also been held outside the homes of two Supreme Court Justices in the Washington area.
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FBI investigates fire at office of prominent anti-abortion lobbying group
Police said Monday that they hadn’t arrested anyone over a weekend fire and vandalism at the office of a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group.
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Pope Francis: Liturgy wars are the work of the devil.
“When liturgical life is a bit of a banner of division, there is the odor of the devil, the deceiver,” the pope said on May 7.
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Pope Francis speaks to LGBT Catholics in new letter: God ‘does not disown any of his children.’
Pope Francis lent a nod of support to a new project that provides resources for L.G.B.T. parish ministry in a note to James Martin, S.J.
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Pope Francis approved spending 1 million euros to free nun kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked militants
Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday.
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Cardinal Dolan visits Ukraine: ‘There is no depression…there is hope.’
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he was surprised and inspired by Ukrainians he met when he made a brief visit to Lviv, Ukraine.
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Canadian panel urges not hiring military chaplains of religions that exclude women from their priesthoods
“Many of the pejorative remarks would appear to be directed to Catholics.”