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Chad Pecknold speaks March 26, 2019, during a conference at the Catholic University of America Washington. (CNS/Bob Roller)

Chad Pecknold, Catholic postliberal thinker with Orban, Vance ties, takes role at DHS

Missionary Carmelite of St. Teresa Sr. Ruby Lemus Salguero arranges candles in front of an altar holding a relic of St. John of the Cross at the chapel of the Divine Providence Hospital chapel Sept. 8, 2026 in San Salvador, El Salvador. The altar is close to a relic of St. Oscar Romero, a Salvadoran archbishop who lived among the sisters when he was assassinated in 1980 as he celebrated Mass in the chapel. (GSR photo/Rhina Guidos)

El Salvador nuns unite relics of John of the Cross and Romero, 'a mystic and a prophet'

Men listen during a training session on worksite safety at Catholic Charities Bronx Day Laborer Center in the Bronx borough of New York City Feb. 16, 2023. (OSV News/Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

Sept. 20, 2026: Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr. Joseph Wilson of St. Margaret Church in the New York borough of Queens prays during a candlelight vigil Sept. 11, 2013. The ceremony marked the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz)

'I remember like it was yesterday': Catholics describe ministering in aftermath of 9/11