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The response to a weeklong Florida edition of World Youth Day, linking Miami's Catholic young people to the official WYD celebrations in Lisbon, Portugal, was greater than anyone could have imagined, according to organizer Sister Alexia Zaldivar, a member of the Pierced Hearts who serves as committee chair of Miami's Pastoral Juvenil Hispana (Hispanic Young Adult Ministry).

A few years ago, people of the little village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland, would never have thought that in the summer of 2023, they would have dozens of guests coming to visit every day from all over the world.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered his support to a federal abortion ban limiting the procedure to around the first trimester of pregnancy, but quickly backtracked after earning the praise of a pro-life group.

Having faith does not mean there will be no difficulties in life, either for individuals or for the church as a whole, Pope Francis said, but it does mean knowing that Jesus is there to give courage and to defeat evil.

Jena Kolles started going to Vacation Bible School at St. Paul in Ham Lake before the current church was built in the early 1980s. The 44-year-old mother of four now co-leads the program, which took place Aug. 7-11 and annually serves more than 400 kids.

More than 200 graduates from 15 states helped celebrate 100 years of seminary formation at Nazareth Hall — and then St. John Vianney College Seminary — in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

In the early 1990s, video game designer Kazunori Yamauchi, along with several colleagues, set out to develop a car racing simulation that would be realistic down to the smallest detail. How well they succeeded may be judged by fact-based drama that takes its name from the title of the franchise they created, "Gran Turismo."

While the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shocked Ecuador Aug. 9, the bishops' conference in the South American country expressed its solidarity with Villavicencio's family and condemned growing rates of violence.