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As Poles commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of Blessed Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with their seven children, the world, six months into their beatification, is stunned to learn about the martyrs from the village of Markowa, who are already working little miracles in peoples’ lives.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Entering the third year of war several church institutions wrapped their aid effort in “two years of war” reports, showing that millions of people have been saved thanks to the Catholic Church.
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Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
Five years since the premiere of the first season, the series about the life of Jesus of Nazareth is now garnering over 770 million views of its episodes and has more than 12 million social media followers.
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Filed Under: Christmas, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
Christmas in Bethlehem was celebratory but not as festive as usual this year, given the outbreak of war in the Holy Land two-and-a-half months ago.
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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Charity, landed in Israel on Dec. 22, starting a “journey of closeness” as papal envoy to the Holy Land during a difficult wartime Christmas season.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News
Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz, chairman of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish bishops’ conference, strongly condemned the incident in which a far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Sejm, the country’s parliament.
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Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
For the first time in history, 150 homeless people had a festive meal, served by Italian journalists and their families, under the famous baroque Bernini’s colonnade in St. Peter’s Square.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis will celebrate the World Day of the Poor for the seventh time on Nov. 19. The 2023 World Day of the Poor will be traditionally hosted by the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.
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Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
James Wahlberg, once a convict, is now a film producer and has created a documentary about Mother Teresa that recently premiered in another country — Poland.
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Papal biographer George Weigel said that people often remember the enthusiasm of the papacy of St. John Paul II, but forget about the state of the church when he was elected.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
“It destroyed a year and a half worth of work,” Auxiliary Bishop Edward Kawa of Lviv said about a Russian aerial attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that has killed one and destroyed a warehouse belonging to Caritas-Spes, the Roman Catholic mission of Caritas in Ukraine, in the early morning hours of Sept. 19.
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The Ulma family was killed in Markowa for hiding eight Jews, including a 3-year-old girl, in their home.
