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Bishop Menjivar urges Cristo Rey students to ‘make room for God’ during Lenten season

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From Pompeii to Pavia: Pope Leo XIV to make 6 pastoral visits throughout Italy

Pastoral care is finally allowed inside Chicago-area ICE facility – on Ash Wednesday

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Pope Leo XIV begins his papacy

This series follows the election, installation, and early pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, offering continuing coverage of his vision, teachings, and leadership of the universal Church. From the Sistine Chapel to Saint Peter’s Square, and beyond, the Catholic Standard chronicles the first steps of this new chapter in the life of the Church.

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Making a Difference: Lent urges us to venture from darkness into the light

Text of Pope Leo’s Feb. 18 general audience

Why doesn’t the Church require more demanding fasting for Lent?

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Photo Gallery: Youth Mass and March for Life

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Photo Gallery: Annual Walk with Mary procession and Mass

Photo Gallery: Haitian Catholic pilgrimage to National Shrine for Jubilee Year of Hope

Photo Gallery: Commemorating Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Parish

During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, Maryland, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington unveiled a new project that seeks to “honor those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland.”

Photo Gallery: At White Mass, Cardinal McElroy encourages people to see as God sees, and recognize the gifts of all

Photo Gallery: Reinterment Ceremony at Brick Chapel in Historic St. Mary’s City

Photo gallery: 111 th World Day of Migrants and Refugees

Photo Gallery: Let the bells of Nagasaki echo to the world - 80th anniversary Nagasaki Peace Memorial Masses and interreligious dialogues to pray for world peace

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Blessed Sacrament defeats St. Elizabeth’s for boys’ CYO basketball championship

In team’s first season, St. Thomas More captures CYO girls’ basketball championship

New club at the University of Maryland’s Catholic Student Center bridges business with beatitudes

Symposium at Stone Ridge spotlights women’s leadership and girls’ education

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From Pompeii to Pavia: Pope Leo XIV to make 6 pastoral visits throughout Italy

Pastoral care is finally allowed inside Chicago-area ICE facility – on Ash Wednesday

Lawmakers, attorneys general back abortion pill challenge DOJ wants to pause

US Church faces these areas of ‘critical concern’ on religious liberty, says bishops’ report

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Pope to Legionaries of Christ: Authority in religious life is not ‘domination’

Olympic ski jumping silver, bronze medals lay on altar as young athlete’s faith goes viral

USCCB calls for adoration hours, works of mercy to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary

Georgia martyrs expected to be beatified in Savannah this Halloween

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Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees

The bishop meets ‘the Boss’: New Jersey bishop has impromptu lunch with Bruce Springsteen

Catherine O’Hara’s Catholic roots

These Olympic athletes are leaning on faith going into the Winter Games

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Junior Saints for 2026 Catholic Schools Week: ‘What I like about my Catholic school’

Junior Saints Christmas 2025 artwork and writings

November Junior Saints: Like St. Thérèse, students show their own ‘Little Way’ of drawing closer to Jesus

Junior Saints topic for November: Like St. Thérèse, students invited to show their own ‘Little Way’ of drawing closer to Jesus

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Care for Creation

Caring for creation this Lent

Laudato Trees celebrates planting 1,000 trees in Archdiocese of Washington

Believers must care for the poor and creation, pope says

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