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Fifth grade students at St. John Berchmans Elementary School, which is part of Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish in Chicago, fill out postcard invitations to the Sept. 7 Mass at their parish to commemorate the blessed's canonization in Rome, Sept. 3. (OSV News/Simone Orendain)

Chicago parish's 'Carlo Fest' celebrates first millennial saint's upcoming canonization

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, left, leads the Orthodox Easter service as Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stand nearby at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, April 20. (Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP, file/Oleg Varov)

Ukraine moves to ban an Orthodox church it says is linked with pro-war Moscow church

 Members of the LGBTQ+ community, with T-shirts reading "God does not reject anyone" in Spanish, arrive to attend a vigil prayer in the Church of the Gesu in central Rome Sept. 5. (AP/Andrew Medichini)

LGBTQ+ Catholics make Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome and celebrate a new sense of acceptance

In her new book, Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter, America magazine's Colleen Dulle opens up about her own disillusionment with the institutional church throughout her tenure as a reporter – and why and how she's stayed Catholic despite the often devastating disappointments. (Chris Geerdes)

Q&A with Colleen Dulle on keeping the faith when the church disappoints