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To help bring love and light to dark issues such as systemic racism and social injustice in a way that children can understand, Eric Ortiz, 47, worked with his 8-year-old daughter, Emilia, and 5-year-old son, Calum, students at Risen Christ Catholic School in Minneapolis, to publish a children’s book.

As Guardian Angels Catholic School in Chaska prepares to close its doors for good May 28 — more than a century after it opened — students, teachers and parents are recognizing the moment with a special Mass, a final-day picnic and fond memories.

On Paris' Rue Haxo, a white-brick church commemorates dozens of Catholic clergy who fell victim to one of modern Europe's bloodiest uprisings. Its 150th anniversary will be marked in the last week of May with a series of commemorative events.

Those who overcome distractions or obstacles when praying learn the value of perseverance in times of trial, Pope Francis said.

In answer to a question from an EWTN News Nightly correspondent, Pelosi, a Catholic who supports legal abortion and taxpayer funding of it, said she was "pleased with what the Vatican put out on that subject" and characterized a May 7 letter from Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as "basically" saying, "'Don't be divisive on the subject.'"

Bishop-designate Stephen Chow Sau-yan told Hong Kong media people must start with a sense of faith and not assume Beijing is the enemy, and he hoped for dialogue to develop a better understanding.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill requiring death-row inmates to choose between the electric chair or the firing squad for their executions if lethal injection drugs are not available.