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Sr. Laurian McDonald, BVM, spent her life calling children to love Jesus in one another including at St. Agnes and St. Matthew schools plus pastoral work at All Saints in Mesa and Hispanic Ministry at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glendale.

Assignments took her to schools in Maine and Massachusetts and Arizona apostolates in Tempe, Phoenix and Tucson plus work at the diocesan Kino Library and St. Clement of Rome Parish in Sun City.

Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus left Uganda and South Sudan to establish its first American apostolate and serve the community via parish catechesis, school assistance and refugee services.

ROME (CNS) — The heroism of Mexico’s newest saint, St. José Sánchez del Río, should embolden the nation’s priests to continue their ministry with trust in God, said the vice postulator of the young saint’s cause.

Freedom came more than two years later, but only a small fraction of the secondary school girls were released.

SAO PAULO (CNS) — The Portuguese Bishops Conference praised former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres for his “deep sense of humanity and faith” after he was nominated as United Nations secretary-general.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will conclude the Year of Mercy by creating 17 new cardinals, including three from the United States: Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, family and life and former bishop of Dallas; and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis.

A late September day is proving to be a memorable date for young golfers throughout history.

NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — The polarization that exists in our secular culture, so visible in the acerbic campaign for the White House, has crept into the Church and compels Catholics of goodwill to be “stewards of mercy” and civility, the head of Catholic News Service told an audience in New Orleans Oct. 5.

In his homily during the weekly televised Mass Oct. 2, Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral rector Fr. John Lankeit reflected on the difference between those issues where Catholics can exercise prudential judgment and those which are intrinsic evils, specifically tackling the topic of abortion. The video of Fr. Lankeit's homily has been shared on several news outlets and had reached more than 30,000 views as of Oct. 6.