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Excitement about the impacts of the National Eucharistic Revival in local dioceses, support for the nomination of St. John Henry Newman as a doctor of the church, and the approval of supplements to the bishops' teaching document on "Faithful Citizenship" featured strongly on the second day of the U.S. bishops' annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

An opportunity lies right around the corner to help Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests who have served selflessly for decades without significant financial compensation.

The first public day of the U.S. Catholic bishops' fall plenary assembly in Baltimore saw elections to important posts, while public presentations chiefly centered on synodality, the use of technology in the liturgy and advancing the cause for canonization of a champion of evangelizing through media.

The March for Life's theme for its 2024 event will be "Pro-Life: With Every Woman, For Every Child," the group's president announced Nov. 14.

After Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., announced Nov. 12 that he is suspending his 2024 campaign for his party's presidential nomination, Catholic political scientists told OSV News that the senator ran a campaign out of sync with the Republican primary electorate.

The chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee has sent a letter to lawmakers in Congress urging enhanced protections be put in place for migrant children.

At age 50, seminarian Scott-Vincent Borba doesn't consider his to be a late vocation. "God called me at age 10," he told OSV News. "I just accepted late."

The removal of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, is an administrative rather than penal action, a canon law scholar told OSV News.