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An Iraqi boy is glad to receive food provided by the Knights of Columbus. The Catholic fraternal organization has raised and committed almost $19 million in aid to Christians and other persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East. (CNS photo/courtesy Knights of Columbus)

Knights give more than $1 million to Iraqi, Syrian Christians for Easter

Catholic News Service
March 28, 2018
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As part of its ongoing support of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, the Knights of Columbus committed more than $1 million to Iraqi and Syrian Christians for Easter.

Pope Francis kisses Peter Lombardi, 12, of Columbus, Ohio, after the boy rode in the popemobile during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 28. Receiving a kiss from the pope was a wish come true for Peter, who has Down syndrome and has survived leukemia. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Young Ohio boy’s wish to meet Pope Francis comes true

Junno Arocho Esteves
March 28, 2018
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“Not only did Pope Francis kiss Peter, he asked Peter to ride in the popemobile with him,” Brenda Lombardi, Peter’s mother, told Catholic News Service.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, 98, longtime chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team and campus icon, gives a thumbs up after the team defeated the Nevada Wolf Pack in the semifinals of the South regional of the 2018 NCAA Tournament March 24 in Atlanta. (CNS photo/Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports via Reuters)

Why Sister Jean and Father Rob matter

Father Patrick Kelly
March 28, 2018
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They are showing us a distinctively Catholic way of engaging with sport as an aspect of culture. This is characterized by what some have described as the Catholic “and.”

Vessels containing sacred chrism and oil for area parishes wait the start of the chrism Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland March 26, 2018. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Chrism Mass includes renewal of commitments, distribution of holy oils

Emily Rosenthal Alster
March 27, 2018
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More than 24 gallons of oil were distributed to parishes and other Catholic institutions at the archdiocesan chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland March 26.

A mosaic of Mary as Mother of the Church is seen above St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this April 13, 2011, file photo. Pope Francis has instituted a new Marian feast honoring Mary as mother of the church. It will be celebrated every year on the Monday after Pentecost. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Mary, Mother of the Church should be celebrated this year, cardinal says

Cindy Wooden
March 27, 2018
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Reminding bishops, pastors and Catholics around the world that all Latin-rite Catholics should celebrate the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church on the Monday after Pentecost this year, Cardinal Robert Sarah said the celebration should take precedence over any other possible liturgy that day.

Pope Francis greets Stephen Hawking during an audience with participants attending a plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican Nov. 28, 2016. Hawking, the British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist and popular author died March 14 at the age of 76. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)

Stephen Hawking and the pope/Prayer for end to terrorism?

Father Kenneth Doyle
March 27, 2018
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Father Doyle fields questions about Stephen Hawking and prayers for Russia.

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