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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Congratulating Donald Trump for his victory in the U.S. presidential election, the Vatican secretary of state expressed hope that people would work together “to change the global situation, which is a situation of serious laceration, serious conflict.”

Some 1,000 current and former prisoners from 12 countries, as well as priests, religious men and women and laypeople who work in prison ministry, attended the jubilee for prisoners Nov. 6.

NEW YORK (CNS) — In the Gospel of John, Jesus tells his disciples, “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

The sophomore math major and Ultimate Frisbee player will serve as lector Nov. 4.

The 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Norcia in the early morning Oct. 30 and reduced the Basilica of St. Benedict, one of its most spiritually and historically significant churches, to rubble.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Defending religious freedom, fighting indifference to attacks on human dignity and promoting care of creation are obligations that Orthodox and Catholics share and areas where Pope Francis said he and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople are in deep harmony.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines revived a "virtual cemetery," which was first launched in 2011, in time for this year's observance.

Catholic Athletes for Christ recruited the Illinois vocations director as a chaplain for the Cubs.

The Oct. 30-Nov. 7 novena is designed to help U.S. Catholics 'study the proposals well, pray and choose with your conscience,' like Pope Francis said.

The university is expecting to shuttle close to 500 students on eight or nine busses to the nation's capitol.