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Mei Wen touches an area of the Holy Stairs where Jesus is believed to have fallen during restoration work at the Pontifical Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs in Rome.

Restoring stairway to Heaven

VATICAN CITY - For the first time in 300 years, the marble steps of the Holy Stairs will be free from the thick wooden panels installed in 1723 to protect the stairs and left uncovered for the public.

The Crossing of the Red Sea by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

God's Word on Sunday: Embracing change is a vital part of living

Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 31, 2019 (Year C) Joshua 5:9, 10-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

Activists from the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations opposing lethal autonomous weapons, protest at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin March, 21, 2019.

Autonomous weapons systems threaten peace, says Vatican official

VATICAN CITY - The growing use of autonomous weapons systems poses serious risks to global peace and stability, a Vatican representative told a U.N. meeting in Geneva.

Sister Maria Concetta Esu, an 85-year-old Daughter of St. Joseph, kisses the hand of Pope Francis after the pontiff awarded her the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 27, 2019.

Pope prefers to keep ring-kissing to minimum

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has made it more than obvious that he does not like people kissing his ring.

Young people sit near Pope Francis as he speaks to pilgrims during a visit to the Sanctuary of the Holy House on the feast of the Annunciation in Loreto, Italy, March 25, 2019.

Mary inspires, assists those seeking their vocation, Pope says to discerning youth

VATICAN – Signing his document dedicated to young people, faith and discernment, Pope Francis said Mary, the mother of God, is a source of inspiration and strength for everyone who seeks to understand their vocation and remain faithful to it.
Pope Francis meets in the Vatican audience hall with staff, middle school and high school students from Padua's Barbarigo Institute March 23 , 2019. Answering questions from three of the students, the pope focused on how prayer, dialogue and passion should be part of their process of making important life decisions.

Prayer, dialogue, service are key to making good choices, Pope tells youth

VATICAN – When it comes time for young people to make an important decision in life, if the possibilities do not create excitement and trepidation, "it's better to go to bed" and think about it some other time, Pope Francis told middle school and high school students.
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass outside the Sanctuary of the Holy House in Loreto, Italy, Oct. 4, 2012. The small house inside the basilica is traditionally venerated as the house of Mary, miraculously transplanted from the Holy Land.

Pope Francis to sign letter to young people at popular Marian sanctuary

VATICAN – The place Pope Francis chose to sign his letter to young people is an important and popular sanctuary housing the Holy House of Loreto.
Then-Archbishop Oscar Romero receives a sack of beans from parishioners following Mass outside of a church in San Antonio Los Ranchos in Chalatenango, El Salvador, in 1979. Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez, considered by many as the father of liberation theology, said he supports an effort to declare now-St. Oscar Romero a doctor of the Catholic Church.

Liberation theology co-founder supports declaring St. Romero 'doctor of the church'

WASHINGTON – One of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America said he supports an effort to declare St. Oscar Romero a doctor of the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, is pictured after being made a cardinal by Pope Francis during a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 28, 2018.

Pope recognizes martyrdom of Romanian bishops, Italian missionary

VATICAN – Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of an Italian missionary killed in Myanmar and seven Romanian Catholic bishops – one of whom was secretly named a cardinal by St. Paul VI – persecuted during the communist era.
Bishop Felix Genn of Munster, Germany, swings a censer as he celebrates Mass during Catholic Church Day May 10, 2018. The German Catholic Church is "in deep distress," said Thomas Sternberg, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics.

German Catholics 'passing through a deep valley', says prominent lay leader

The German Catholic Church is "in deep distress," said Thomas Sternberg, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, the coordinating body of official German Catholic lay organizations.
This is a photo illustration depicting memento mori, a reminder of one’s death. A new devotional is intended to remind us of our mortality.

Memento mori: ‘Remember your death’

ST. LOUIS – We have one life. What are we doing with it? Are we remembering our death?

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