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Ryan Kalkbrenner and the Creighton Bluejays are back in the 2025 NCAA men's basketball tournament, one of eight Catholic universities competing in this year’s March Madness.

8 Catholic universities get ready to compete in NCAA men’s basketball tournament

Mar 18, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Several of the Catholic institutions in this year’s March Madness tournmant are making history. Read more

Celebration parade for 2016 Villanova men's championship basketball team Credit: Kelleher Photography/Shutterstock

A Catholic guide to March Madness 2021

Mar 17, 2021

By Christine Rousselle

CNA is once again providing its annual look at all of the Catholic colleges and universities among the 68 teams... Read more

Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt at the first round game of the NCAA Tournament in Dallas, TX., on Thursday, March 15, 2018.

Meet Sister Jean: 98-year-old nun and March Madness Twitter celebrity

Mar 22, 2018

By Christine Rousselle

In the first weekend of the March Madness tournament, the most tweeted-about person might not have been a basketball player,... Read more

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Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin presides over the solemn Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2025, held in St. Peter’s Square, highlighting the need for the Church to follow in Pope Francis’ footsteps as “instruments of mercy for humanity” in the world today.

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Carlo Acutis.

Carlo Acutis and the four popes

Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates the Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2025 — the second day of mourning for the late Pope Francis.

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Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) at the Divine Mercy Shrine in the Philippines.

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Original painting of the Divine Mercy by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski in 1934; Pope John Paul II in 1996.

Pope John Paul II declared Divine Mercy Sunday a feast 25 years ago

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