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On April 19, the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, a fight started out of desperation in the district of the German-occupied Polish capital where Nazis forced the Jewish population to live in unlivable conditions.

"We've been on the journey of healing for so long, but now this healing is going to take a different dimension, which will be even richer. What many of our people have been longing for is for the universal Catholic Church to recognize the wrong that was done."

When Sr. Michaela Rak opened the first hospice in Lithuania in 2009, she didn't know she would open a whole new world for palliative care patients in this European country that used to be part of the Soviet bloc.

Mercy Sr. Rosemary Connelly, former executive director of Misericordia and lifelong advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities, will receive the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.

The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women, has taken a step forward.

When Sr. Suellen Tennyson was abducted in April 2022 from her Burkina Faso convent, she was beginning a five-month journey into the inscrutable hands of God.

Gathered for a pregame huddle in Ross Hall at their motherhouse, a spirited group of Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth enthusiastically shared advice and encouragement in advance of the big Super Bowl.

Philadelphia Eagles fans are turning to prayer, preaching and the city's iconic soft pretzels to support their team in Super Bowl LVII.

Experts differ over the Super Bowl's impact on human trafficking, but overall data shows that the problem has risen sharply across the globe. 

Divine intervention may be the only explanation for how two college teammates graduated, ventured off on different career paths miles apart and then, 40 years later, ended up on the same journey in Miami, both wearing habits.

The Missionary Sisters of the Resurrection own the Catholic Bilingual School of Our Lady of the Resurrection and started running a preschool in 2011. After starting with just 17 children, the school now enrolls 300 and counting.

Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Jan. 17.

"We were not allowed to go into the ER when [the doctors] were working on him, but after Dr. King was pronounced dead, we were admitted to it, and the authorities gave us the time we needed to pray with him."

While war in Ukraine continues with no end in sight, one group in particular is contributing to a more peaceful world amid the turmoil of Russian invasion — the Catholic religious sisters of Ukraine.

"Lord, I ask that you take me out of here soon … I want to be with my mom and sister soon. Amen."

Just days before the policy was set to expire, the U.S. Supreme Court issued Dec. 27 a 5-4 ruling that Title 42 would remain in place while legal challenges to the policy play out.