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Husky dogs pull a rig and musher Audun Salte through the town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway, Aug. 6, 2019. Salte worries that as temperatures warm, climate change could lead to the extinction of all life on Earth. (CNS photo/Hannah McKay, Reuters)

Pope calls for global alliance to better educate young people

Carol Glatz
September 12, 2019
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Pope Francis said the challenges facing humanity and the Earth are so urgent and important that he has invited world leaders, educators and young people to come to the Vatican next spring to launch a global alliance for building a new, more humane future.

Oakes Fegley stars in a scene from the movie "The Goldfinch." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (CNS photo/Warner Bros.)

Movie Review: ‘The Goldfinch’

John Mulderig
September 12, 2019
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A 17th-century Dutch masterpiece becomes a complex souvenir in the patchy drama “The Goldfinch”

Local physicians George Hennawi, from left, Eskander Yazaji, Camille Tawil and Ibrahim Hanna, Catholic schoolmates in Damascus, relax in September 2016 outside a Federal Hill restaurant during Tawil’s wedding rehearsal party. Their T-shirts were inspired by a Japanese cartoon they watched as children. (Courtesy George Hennawi)

Road from Damascus: From Syria to Baltimore, physicians find, share compassion

Paul McMullen
September 12, 2019
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What do School Sisters of Notre Dame, a poverty-stricken West Baltimorean and a Towson resident with heart disease have in common?

Pope Francis met Sept. 11, 2019, with the committee working to fulfill the goals of the "Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together," the historic document signed by the pope and Egyptian Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar University in February. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

On 9/11, pope greets Vatican, Muslim leaders promoting world peace

Carol Glatz
September 11, 2019
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On a day remembered for the terrorist attacks against the United States, Pope Francis met with members of a committee of Muslim leaders and Vatican officials promoting a new era of dialogue and world peace.

A woman grieves at the inscription of her late husband's name at the national 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City Sept. 11, 2014. Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain, still recalls the 9/11 attacks vividly. That first year after the attacks, he said, he doesn't remember how many funerals and memorial Masses he celebrated. (CNS photo/Chang Lee, Reuters)

Memories of 9/11 attacks linger for fire department chaplain

Catholic News Service
September 10, 2019
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Monsignor John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain who is currently pastor of St. Jude Church in Brooklyn, remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly.

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