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Mark Pattison writes for Catholic News Service.

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People gathered Jan. 6, 2020 near the White House in Washington during a candlelight vigil to call for peaceful solutions to rising tensions between the United States and Iran. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Prayer vigil pushes for peaceful solution in Iran crisis

Mark Pattison|Jan 7, 2020|3 Min Read

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington July 24, 2019. Congress was busy in 2019, but the House and Senate were often at cross purposes with each other. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Catholics offer lots of advocacy, get few results on Capitol Hill in 2019

Mark Pattison|Dec 30, 2019|6 Min Read

Trucks wait in line for border customs control, to cross into the U.S., at the Zaragoza-Ysleta border crossing bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 12, 2019. The United States, Mexico and Canada called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It was signed by the three countries last year but underwent revisions. Now the U.S. House and Senate must approve it and then it will go to President Donald Trump for his signature. Mexico ratified the agreement in June, and Canada is expected to do so soon. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

New trade deal not great but better than last one, Catholic leaders say

Mark Pattison|Dec 19, 2019|5 Min Read

Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx star in a scene from the movie "Just Mercy." The film "has the potential to wake up out of a slumber the part of society that either doesn't believe the death penalty is still in practice or chooses to ignore it," according to two leaders of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, founded 10 years ago to eliminate death penalty laws and executions. (CNS photo/Warner Bros.)

Death penalty foes applaud message of new movie 'Just Mercy'

Mark Pattison|Dec 17, 2019|4 Min Read

Pope Pius XI is seen in a publicity still from the documentary "Holy Silence." The film examines whether Jewish lives would have been saved had Pope Pius XI or his successor, Pope Pius XII, issued a statement urging the protection of Jews in Axis-held Europe. (CNS photo/PerlePress Productions)

Film examines whether papal message could have saved Europe's Jews

Mark Pattison|Dec 9, 2019|4 Min Read

Pro-life advocates attend the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 27. "Love Saves Lives" will be the theme for the 2018 March for Life Jan. 19. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

March for Life theme borrows page from suffragist centennial

Mark Pattison|Dec 3, 2019|3 Min Read

Saul Rascon Salazar speaks during the Ignatian Solidarity Network "public witness" gathering near the U.S. Capitol in Washington Nov. 18, 2019. Salazar, a freshman at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He said he was 5 when his parents brought him to the United States and was 15 before he learned he was in this country without documents. (CNS photo/Doris Sump, courtesy Ignatian Solidarity Network)

DACA recipients undaunted moments before visiting Congress

Mark Pattison|Nov 19, 2019|4 Min Read

Jose Lopez, Hispanic minister from Stockton, Calif., raises the cross he received in 1985 from the Third National Encuentro during a Sept. 22 plenary session at the V Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Bishops hear follow-up Encuentro report, OK writing new pastoral plan

Mark Pattison|Nov 13, 2019|4 Min Read

The likeness of St. Irenaeus is seen at the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate in Guelph, Ontario. The U.S. bishops Nov. 12, the second day of their fall general assembly in Baltimore, added their assent to a call to have the saint declared a doctor of the church. (CNS photo/The Crosiers)

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Bishops agree with call to have St. Irenaeus declared doctor of the church

Mark Pattison|Nov 12, 2019|4 Min Read

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput speaks from the floor during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 11, 2019. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop reports on progress of document on marriage and family life

Mark Pattison|Nov 12, 2019|3 Min Read

Seminarian Luis Silva of the Archdiocese of the New York makes a promise of obedience to New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan during his ordination to the diaconate Nov. 9, 2019, at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. Deacon Silva was one of six seminarians preparing for the priesthood who were ordained transitional deacons at the Mass. Three of the men are from the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., and two are from the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Bishops OK new edition of Program of Priestly Formation

Mark Pattison|Nov 12, 2019|3 Min Read

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., looks over material before the start of the second day of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 12, 2019. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Bishops approve new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours

Mark Pattison|Nov 12, 2019|3 Min Read

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