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One more day with my mother
May 1, 2026She is dressed in a dark suit with a cluster of white orchids on the lapel. Next to her stands a chubby little girl, smiling shyly in a crispy first Communion dress.
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Nashville Dominicans bring joy to classroom and community
April 30, 2026Three sisters from the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation teach at St. Catherine of Siena School, bringing a joyful enthusiasm for learning and Jesus to the young students and the parish school community.
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Sister Joan McCann, OP, dies April 9
April 30, 2026Sister Joan McCann, OP, died April 9 at the Racine Dominican Motherhouse in Wisconsin. Sister Joan served in the Archdiocese of Atlanta in several roles including as assistant schools superintendent. She was 85 years old.
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Sister Norma Pimentel shares the power of ‘encounter’ at Aquinas Center lecture
April 30, 2026Sister Norma Pimentel, known for her work with migrants on the southern border, was the St. Catherine of Siena Lecture speaker at the Aquinas Center for Theology at Emory University, challenging believers to stand with the marginalized.
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After 50 years ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ remains an ecumenical triumph
April 30, 2026Here’s a fact that might surprise even the most informed film buffs: in nearly a century of the Academy Awards, only three films have managed to win all the “Big Five” Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.
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Living as true witnesses to Christ
April 28, 2026Every so often, someone asks me what I enjoy most about serving as a bishop. I usually answer: the privilege of administering the sacrament of confirmation in parishes and on college campuses. This April alone, I have the joy of celebrating 11 confirmation Masses.
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US bishops’ head calls for prayer after gunman attacks White House press dinner attended by Trump
April 27, 2026Following a gunman’s attempted assault on the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, forcing the evacuation of the president, first lady and members of the Cabinet, the head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference denounced the violence and called for all to resort to prayer.
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Pope Leo meets Equatorial Guinea’s dictator, urges justice over power
April 22, 2026Pope Leo XIV arrived April 21 in Equatorial Guinea, the final country of his 11-day apostolic journey in Africa, where the pope met the country’s longtime ruler and urged the country’s civil authorities to choose justice over power
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Flannery O’Connor: Southern writer made Catholic vision ‘apparent by shock’
April 21, 2026Flannery O’Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted fiction writers of the 20th century. OSV News profiles the Georgia writer as part of a series on great American Catholics ahead of the July 4 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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‘You help with the children’
April 17, 2026A crowd was carrying candles and processing down the front steps of St. John Chrysostom Melkite Catholic Church in the evening on Good Friday. When it was my turn to go down the steps, I asked the man beside me for assistance, and he graciously obliged.