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A Caritas worker walks through destroyed buildings in Gaza City March 16, 2024.

Caritas Luxembourg ends international projects after financial scandal

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Following a multimillion dollar fraud case at Luxembourg's Caritas, the church's aid organization has been forced to stop its international aid projects. Dozens of them will be halted in the most vulnerable regions of the world.

Sister Teresa Agnes Gerlach of Jesus Crucified, former prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, and Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, are pictured in an undated combination photo. In a Sept. 17, 2024, letter, Bishop Olson urged Catholics in his diocese not to participate in sacraments with, or financially support, the Arlington Carmelite community after it released a statement Sept. 14 announcing it had affiliated with the canonically irregular Society of St. Pius X.

Texas nuns in clash with Fort Worth bishop publicly affiliate with irregular traditionalist society

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A Texas bishop is urging Catholics in his diocese not to participate in sacraments with, or financially support, a community of Discalced Carmelite nuns who recently announced a formal association with the Society of St. Pius X.

Jim Gaffigan attends the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala in Los Angeles Feb. 2, 2024.

Trump, Harris to face off once more at the Al Smith Dinner with Jim Gaffigan as emcee

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The next time former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off before a huge audience, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan likely will sit between them as host and Catholic comic Jim Gaffigan will serve as master of ceremonies.

Drone footage shows residents gathering around a bridge next to the Franciscan monastery amid flooding in Klodzko, in the Lower Silesia region of Poland Sept. 15, 2024, in this still image from social media video.

Historic Franciscan monastery under water as southwestern Poland suffers disastrous floods

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Poland's government is preparing a decree of a state of natural disaster as the southwestern part of the country was severely flooded by torrential rains caused by Storm Boris.

Law enforcement vehicles are parked after reports of shots fired outside Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump's Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 15, 2024.

FBI investigating apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump

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Former president Donald J. Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Sept. 15, weeks after being wounded in a previous attack during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

The liturgical furniture designed by designer and sculptor Guillaume Bardet, seen in an undated photo, is composed of five elements in the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: the altar, the cathedra and the associated seats, the ambo, the tabernacle and the baptistery. Each of the pieces was designed in sculpted bronze, a material offering a powerful, timeless and luminous aesthetic.

Tradition will meet subtle modernity in restored Notre Dame Cathedral

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The excitement is mounting in Paris ahead of the Dec. 8 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral with only a few cranes remaining on the outside of the iconic French church.

The flag of North Dakota is seen in this illustration photo taken August 21, 2024.

North Dakota judge overturns state's abortion ban, AG says he will appeal

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A North Dakota judge overturned that state's near-total abortion ban Sept. 12, ruling the state's constitution permits abortion until viability.

Musician Jon Bon Jovi gestures onstage during the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala in Los Angeles Feb. 2, 2024.

'Livin' on a prayer': Catholic-raised Bon Jovi helps save woman on Nashville bridge

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Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman's life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10.

Jane Gaudreau, second from left, mother of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, and Meredith Gaudreau, middle in blue, widow of Johnny Gaudreau, a winger with the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team, watch with family and friends as a hearse carries away the casket of Johnny Gaudreau, following the funeral Mass for him and his brother at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Media, Pa., Sept. 9, 2024. The brothers died after being hit by a drunk driver while riding bicycles in New Jersey Aug. 29. Not only is Meredith pregnant, so is Matthew's widow, Madeline, who is expecting the couple's first child.

Widows of Catholic NHL star, brother testify to faith, love and new life at joint funeral

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Perseverance, fortitude, grit and calm in the face of a storm often accompany the description of prominent athletes. At the funeral Mass of deceased brothers Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau Sept. 9 however, it was their wives who emulated the aforementioned attributes as they took turns giving words of remembrance for their fallen husbands.

Polish Father Michal Olszewski, of the Priests of the Sacred Heart order, is seen in screenshot from a video of him walking to a police van from a court building in Warsaw Poland, on Sept. 6, 2024, the day he testified on his claims of being tortured in prison. A well-known retreat master, the priest was arrested March 26 as Internal Security Agency officials raided Sacred Heart houses in an investigation of the order's receipt of grants from the previous government to use in part for a center for abuse victims.

Head of Sacred Heart order appeals to Polish authorities to respect dignity of arrested priest

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As the superior general of the Sacred Heart order appealed to Polish authorities to ensure an arrested Polish priest's "dignity" is "respected," defenders have accused the country's government of using Father Michal Olszewski as a political prisoner and urged the Catholic Church to speak up on his behalf.

People participate in a funeral ceremony in Lviv, Ukraine, Sept. 6, 2024, for Evgenia Bazylevych and her three daughters, killed during the Russian missile attack on Sept. 4. Yaroslav, her husband, was the only family member who survived the attack.

Thousands mourn Ukrainian family killed in a Russian strike on Lviv

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Lviv mourned the victims of the Sept. 4 Russian strike on the residential buildings as thousands gathered Sept. 6 for funeral services of a mother and her three daughters.

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