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News from the Vatican
- Pope changes date of World Day of Migrants and Refugees to September
  
  At the request of various bishops' conferences, Pope Francis has changed the date of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees to the last Sunday of September.
- Cardinal makes ‘urgent call’ to combat antibiotic overuse, misuse
  
  Antimicrobial resistance poses a "great challenge" to global public health and puts the most vulnerable in our society at risk, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for...
- Cupich denies he and Wuerl hatched rival plan before Baltimore
  
  Concerning a report that he and Cardinal Donald Wuerl worked out an alternative plan on sex abuse reform ahead of the recent US bishops meeting, Cardinal Blase Cupich told Crux: “At no time prior to...
Catholic News Service
- 'Every day is Thanksgiving,' says Cherokee chief
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com By Gina Christian PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Thanksgiving should be a daily attitude rather than an annual observance, according to an American Indian...
- Lumen Christi Award winner has spent life as a religious serving poor
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Rich Kalonick courtesy Catholic Extension By CHICAGO (CNS) -- Sister Marie-Paule Willem, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, who has been serving the poor in the U.S. and around the...
- Simple Christians: Ordinary Trappist martyrs gave extraordinary witness
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Dicastery for Communication By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After Islamic terrorists stormed the Algerian monastery he called home, Trappist Father...
National Catholic Register
- St. John Vianney’s Incorrupt Heart Begins U.S. Tour
  
  By Joseph Pronechen | The “Heart of a Priest” nationwide relic tour of the incorrupt heart of St. John Vianney, Curé of Ars, the patron of priests, fittingly launched at St Mary Church in New...
- Norcia Basilica to Be Restored to ‘Exactly How it Was Before Earthquake’
  
  By Edward Pentin | After two years of bureaucratic delays and differences between local citizens and their bishop, public pressure has appeared to ensure that the basilica of St. Benedict in...
- USAID Representative Details New Approach to Help Iraq’s Christians
  
  By Lauretta Brown | A few months ago, Max Primorac began serving as the newly created special representative for minority assistance in Iraq with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).