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Soledad O'Brien will be the featured speaker at a Nov. 10 event beneffitting a scholarship fund for African Americans. (Photo credit: Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien)

Soledad O’Brien to speak at scholarship dinner

Ralph Moore
November 1, 2019
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Soledad O’Brien, an award-winning journalist who has ties to Baltimore, will be the keynote speaker at a Nov. 10 scholarship dinner benefiting African-American students who wish to go to Loyola Blakefield in Towson.

Pope Francis visits graves of children before celebrating Mass marking the feast of All Souls at Laurentino Cemetery in Rome Nov. 2, 2018. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pray for the dead, gain indulgences for them, cardinal urges Catholics

Cindy Wooden
November 1, 2019
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The early November feasts of All Saints and All Souls are reminders that God’s church exists both on earth and in heaven and that all the faithful, living and dead, can and should pray for each other, a top Vatican official wrote.

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Nov. 1, 2019, the feast of All Saints. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

No plaster saints: God gives grace to live holy lives, pope says

Cindy Wooden
November 1, 2019
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The saints were flesh-and-blood people whose lives included real struggles and joys, and whose holiness reminds all the baptized that they, too, are called to be saints, Pope Francis said.

People in Starayelnya, Belarus, visit graves during All Saints Day Nov. 1, 2019. In a video message to young people participating in the World Youth Encounter in Mexico City, Pope Francis said death teaches people to "relate with mystery" and to trust that there is something beyond death. (CNS photo/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters)

Death comes to those who forget it, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves
November 1, 2019
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Death is not a topic that should be avoided but a reminder that cures men and women from any illusion of being all-powerful, Pope Francis said.

Sts. Jean de Lalande, Isaac Jogues and Rene Goupil, who were among the 17th-century French Jesuit missionaries martyred in North America, are depicted in a stained-glass window at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame of Quebec in Quebec City. The feast of All Saints, celebrated Nov. 1, commemorates all those in heaven. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Feasts of All Saints, All Souls are special time of prayer

Catholic Review Staff
October 31, 2019
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All Saints Day, a solemnity set aside by the Catholic Church to honor saints known and unknown, will be celebrated Nov. 1.

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