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Fire chaplain helped save religious relics from burning Cathedral of Notre Dame

A hero emerging from the Notre Dame Cathedral fire April 15 is Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, who is credited with saving a reliquary containing the crown of thorns and the Blessed Sacrament from the burning cathedral.

Pope Francis to restructure Roman Curia with major office for evangelization

It’s been a long, painstaking process that has taken over five years. But a new apostolic constitution for the Roman Curia is almost ready to be published and looks set to be one of the most radical shakeups of the church’s central administration in a generation.

Hunting for eggs

Children at St. Ann Parish in Lansing got into the Easter spirit at an outdoor Easter egg hunt April 20, 2019.

French leaders pledge Notre Dame Cathedral will be restored

Church leaders joined government officials in saying they expect that Notre Dame Cathedral’s grandeur will be restored as firefighters extinguished the last flames of a fast-moving blaze that seriously damaged much of the iconic structure.

Holy Week 2019

Catholics across the Archdicoese of Chicago participated in a variety of liturgies and devotions between Palm Sunday and the Easter Vigil.

No ‘us and them’ is cure to violence, speaker says

The cure to violence in Chicago is simple, according to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, rabbinical student Tamar Manasseh and other speakers at the third “You Are My Neighbor” gathering April 11 at St. Barnabas Church in Beverly.

Thousands of new Catholics received into the church at Easter Vigil

Tens of thousands of new Catholics were received into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil liturgies in parishes throughout the United States the night of April 20.

Knights, Ladies of Peter Claver: Stalwarts of the Catholic Church

The Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver have been stalwarts of the Catholic Church since the organization’s founding in the early 20th century, and the national fraternal organization of men, women and children is still going strong in several predominantly black parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

St. Patrick’s letter-writing effort against state abortion bills spreads across parishes

When Tom DeMint and William Gatti first learned that Cardinal Cupich was urging Catholics to contact their legislators to oppose two bills that would dramatically reduce restrictions on abortions in Illinois, they fully agreed — and thought about what more their parish, St. Patrick in Lake Forest, could do to get the word out.

US bishops decry terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops termed as "a great evil" the Easter terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka targeting the country's minority Christian community as worshippers packed three churches.
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