Archive for August 31, 2024

Knights from several councils in Michigan join athletes from the Challenger Division of Clinton Valley Little League, which serves people with disabilities, for the June 15, 2024, dedication of McGivney Field, a new accessible baseball diamond at Neil Reid Park in Clinton Township.?w=200&h=150

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Knights ‘step up to the plate’ to raise funds for baseball field for special-needs athletes

The field will be used by members of the Clinton Valley Little League Challenger Division Senior League, which is for... Read more

The new section of the St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery in Palatine, Illinois, will feature “winding walking trails, native plants, and a mixture of meadow and forest terrain.”?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

‘Natural burial’ option debuts in Archdiocese of Chicago

Catholics will now have the option of using natural burial plots at St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery, about 25 miles... Read more

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A worshiper waves the flag of China as Pope Francis leaves following the weekly general audience on June 12, 2019, at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Vatican-China bishop deal renewed for four more years

A pro-life sign is seen on a roadside in Agnew, Nebraska, on May 14, 2024.

Voters in Nebraska will have a choice between two competing abortion measures

Pope Francis meets with other delegates of the Synod on Synodality at a roundtable discussion in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 17, 2024.

Live updates: The Synod on Synodality debates the Catholic Church’s future

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day.

5 ways St. John Paul II changed the Catholic Church forever

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Saintly superhero: When Marvel Comics told the life story of John Paul II

When asked what Christians can do outside the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa responded: “Pray and support. Support the Christian community as much as they can.”

Jerusalem cardinal: Two-state solution to end Israel-Hamas war is now ‘unrealistic’

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance listens as Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.

JD Vance at Wisconsin faith rally says Catholics ‘feel abandoned’ by Biden, Harris

Pro-life protestors hold signs outside the Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 10, 2024, advocating against Amendment 3, which would dramatically expand abortion access in Missouri if passed in November.

3 states pick up abortion pill lawsuit against Food and Drug Administration

“Don’t mess with my children,” reads a sign carried by a participant in one of some 30 marches on Oct. 19, 2024, in Colombia to protest the country’s health department memorandom that sanctions sex changes for minors.

Thousands of Colombians protest government’s embrace of gender ideology

Interior of the parish church in the Cuxtitali sector of the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Mexican priest shot dead after celebrating Mass

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