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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During a live broadcast of his daily morning Mass, Pope Francis prayed for victims of the coronavirus epidemic and the many health care workers fighting its spread.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Optimism among pro-lifers ran high March 3 for a successful outcome to the first abortion case heard by the Supreme Court in four...

Repentance has to be in response to Jesus' death on the cross. The word “redemption” comes, literally, from the term to buy back, which God-as-man did on the cross.

The Lenten season is also a time for prayer, whose contemplation should yield compassion in action toward the wounds of Christ present today, the pope said.

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — The anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland, is “a solemn and mournful opportunity to reflect upon man’s capacity for evil,” said Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

From the time Fr. David Loeffler was born until he turned 12, his Pentecostal “granny” took him, along with her family members and other children she nannied, to her little church four times a week. And each visit was four hours long.

ROME (CNS) — As Christians work and pray for the restoration of full unity among them, they must be willing to learn from one another, even from the smallest of the Christian communities, Pope Francis said.

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation was marked in Israel and Poland.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said remembering the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust is a call for the world today to reflect and commit to not repeating the atrocities of the past.

Freedom to practice the Catholic faith is not guaranteed, even in the modern age, as one priest's life story and a newly-released report show.