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With "overwhelming joy," Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced July 6 that Pope Francis had approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Pope Francis welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Vatican July 4, and the two discussed the ongoing wars in Eastern Ukraine and in Syria, the Vatican said. Russia plays a major role in both conflicts.
What treats do you associate with July 4? I enjoy bomb pops and potato sticks.
The U.S. bishops, in a July 2 statement, praised the Supreme Court's decision June 27 to block the Trump administration's added citizenship question to the 2020 census and said "the inclusion of a citizenship question must ensure genuine reasons" for it.
Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns, the Dallas Diocese and the entire community are mourning the loss of 10 people in a fiery plane crash that occurred the morning of June 30 at an area municipal airport.
The Vatican City State tribunal has ordered the opening of two tombs in a small Vatican cemetery at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983.
The last day of WorkCamp 2019 saw more than 800 campers rise early to clean and collect their things before a day of goodbyes. After Mass, celebrated by Father William Nyce, parochial vicar at St. Philip Church in Falls Church, campers gathered in the auditorium for the morning program to enjoy music and share how they had changed during the past week.
Following Mass, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge was joined by a full contingent of Knights of Columbus and more than 100 parishioners for the groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax June 30.
Blessing bands of wool that archbishops will wear around their shoulders, Pope Francis said, "It is a sign that the shepherds do not live for themselves but for the sheep."
As a small group of witnesses silently looked on, the mortal remains of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen were interred at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria late in the afternoon of June 27, completing a transfer from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York that began early that morning.
