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Her story of abduction and escape is one of hope and courage, but it is also a story of faith, prayer and triumph over evil.

World Youth Day pilgrims arrive in Panama filled with faith and enthusiasm.

Young people who participated in the 2019 March for Life say they are on a mission to be a voice for the voiceless and end abortion.

In his new apostolic exhortation, “Complete My Joy,” Bishop Olmsted hoped to reach all husbands and wives and mothers and fathers throughout the Diocese of Phoenix, calling them to lead their families to holiness.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although the weeklong retreat for U.S. Catholic bishops emphasized quiet reflection, several bishops spoke out after it wrapped up Jan. 8 with positive reaction about it and to give shoutouts to the retreat leader, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, who has preached to popes and top officials of the Roman Curia for nearly 40 years.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, calling the organization “an American Catholic cultural icon,” said senators have no business questioning a federal judicial nominee’s membership in the Knights over its support for Church teaching on abortion and same-sex marriage.

Several thousand people of all ages turned out from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri for the annual march in downtown Chicago.

Fathers and mothers have the ability and responsibility to lead their families to holiness, wrote Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted in an apostolic exhortation published Dec. 30.

More than 118,000 people had already signed up to pray this novena, which began Jan. 14.

Parish demographics are made up of 30 percent visitors and a large number of parishioners whose second home is in Sedona.