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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.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and St. John Paul II are seen in a still from the feature-length documentary "The Divine Plan." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. (CNS photo/Nexus Media)

Movie Review: ‘The Divine Plan’

Sister Hosea Rupprecht
October 30, 2019
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This is a wonderful addition to the history of relations between the United States and the Catholic Church, especially in a time when religion and politics are both so divisive.

Firefighters battle a wind-driven wildfire Oct. 25, 2019, in Canyon Country near Los Angeles.
Firefighters battle a wind-driven wildfire Oct. 25, 2019, in Canyon Country near Los Angeles. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is providing support to the communities affected by the fires through Catholic Charities of Los Angeles and local parishes and schools. (CNS photo/Gene Blevins, Reuters)

Getty Fire impacts Catholic university, schools, retired sisters

Carol Zimmermann
October 30, 2019

The Getty Fire that began whipping through mountain communities west of Los Angeles during the early hours of Oct. 28 caused the closure of several local Catholic schools, the evacuation of students and staff at Mount St. Mary’s University and a call for the retired sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet to shelter in place.

The sun sets on the Celtic crosses that adorn the gravestones at the monastic site established in the sixth century by St. Kevin in Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland Oct. 15, 2013. (Tom McCarthy Jr./CR file)

Have you ever experienced a “thin place”?

Effie Caldarola
October 29, 2019
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This is the season when the Catholic world celebrates the feast of All Saints’ Day, followed by All Souls’ Day. The night before All Saints’ Day, the cultural world celebrates Halloween, literally the eve of All Hallows.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Oct. 26, 2019, at the Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. Biden attended morning Mass Oct. 27 at St. Anthony Church in Florence and was refused Communion by the pastor, Father Robert E. Morey, over Biden's support for legal abortion. (CNS photo/Sam Wolfe, Reuters)

Biden denied Communion at Mass during campaign stop in South Carolina

Catholic News Service
October 29, 2019
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Former Vice President Joe Biden attended the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony Church Oct. 27 and when he presented himself to receive the Eucharist was refused by the pastor.

Central American migrants who were returned to Mexico from the U.S. under the Migrant Protection Protocols eat breakfast at a Catholic-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sept. 12, 2019. A Mexican priest and migrant shelter operator suffered an extortion attempt and later a violent robbery at his parish residence on the same day. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Mexican priest who runs shelter extorted, later attacked in rectory

Catholic News Service
October 29, 2019
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A Mexican priest and migrant shelter operator suffered an extortion attempt and, later the same day, a violent robbery at his parish residence.

In his weekly column of Oct. 25, 2019, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput calls the city's plans to create a safe "illicit" drug injection site "simply the latest dose of despair offered by a confused and suffering culture." Archbishop Chaput is pictured in a June 13, 2018, photo. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Plan for drug injection site latest in ‘dose of despair,’ says archbishop

Catholic News Service
October 29, 2019
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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said the city’s plan to create a safe drug injection site now that it has the legal go-ahead to do so “is simply the latest dose of despair offered by a confused and suffering culture.”

Pope Francis accepts a plant during the offertory as he celebrates the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Christians must shun self-worship, pope says at synod’s final Mass

Barbara J. Fraser
October 28, 2019
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Poor people from the Amazon have shown that God’s creation must be treated “not as a resource to be exploited but as a home to be preserved, with trust in God,” Pope Francis said.

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