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Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency.

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A member of the Missionaries of Charity interacts with the children of a kindergarten inside the Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, a home for orphaned, destitute and abandoned children in Kolkata, India, Aug. 30, 2016. (CNS photo/Rupak De Chowdhuri, Reuters)

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Mother Teresa’s former secretary to lead Missionaries of Charity

Courtney Mares|Mar 15, 2022|2 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives to lead his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 2, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday: Lent is a time for conversion and interior renewal

Courtney Mares|Mar 2, 2022|4 Min Read

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union, is pictured in a file photo during a news conference at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Catholics in Europe react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Courtney Mares|Feb 24, 2022|5 Min Read

Pope Francis greets a woman during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Feb. 23, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis decries excessive ‘exaltation of youth’ as he begins new catechesis series on old age

Courtney Mares|Feb 23, 2022|3 Min Read

Worshippers light candles as they attend a prayer service at St. Michael's Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Kyiv Feb. 20, 2022. Pope Francis expressed "great sorrow" over the situation in Ukraine and called on Christians to observe a day of prayer and fasting for peace on Ash Wednesday, March 2. (CNS photo/Umit Bektas, Reuters)

Ukraine crisis: Pope Francis calls for global day of fasting for peace on Ash Wednesday

Courtney Mares|Feb 23, 2022|3 Min Read

Scalabrinian Father Jacques E. Fabre, currently administrator of San Filipe de Jesus Catholic Mission in Forest Park, Ga., is seen in this undated photo. On Feb. 22, 2022, Pope Francis named named Father Fabre to succeed Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston, S.C., whose resignation the pope accepted the same day. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, The Georgia Bulletin)

Pope Francis appoints Father Jacques Fabre as new bishop of Charleston

Courtney Mares|Feb 22, 2022|2 Min Read

June 22,2013: The prostration of the ordinands during the Litany of the Saints at the Fraternity of St. Peter's Roman parish, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome. (CNA)

FSSP says Pope Francis has issued decree confirming its use of 1962 liturgical books

Courtney Mares|Feb 21, 2022|4 Min Read

Bishop Stephen Chow, S.J., photographed before his episcopal consecration. (Society of Jesus, Chinese Province via CNA)

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Hong Kong’s new Catholic bishop says it’s unacceptable to trample on human dignity

Courtney Mares|Feb 9, 2022|4 Min Read

Blessing Obuson, 19, from Nigeria, rescued from human traffickers, poses for a portrait in a shelter on the outskirts of Moscow in this Feb. 21, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Maxim Shemetov, Reuters)

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Pope Francis: Human trafficking has created ‘an open wound on the body of Christ’

Courtney Mares|Feb 8, 2022|5 Min Read

Children participating in a Catholic Action initiative helped to release colorful balloons at the end of the Angelus on Jan. 30, 2022. (Vatican Media via CNA)

Pope Francis: 'The Lord always surprises us'

Courtney Mares|Jan 30, 2022|3 Min Read

Bishop-elect Joseph A. Espaillat. (Screenshot from Centro Católico Carismático YouTube channel)

NY auxiliary appointed by Pope Francis will be one of world’s youngest bishops

Courtney Mares|Jan 25, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on Dec. 19, 2021. (Vatican Media)

Pope Francis asks Catholics to offer their sufferings for Christian unity

Courtney Mares|Jan 16, 2022|3 Min Read

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