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Father Melvin Díaz Aponte, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and Carmen Alicia Rodríguez Echevarría, principal of the parish school, are pictured in an undated photo.They received the Catholic Extension Society's 2025-2026 Lumen Christi Award. For the 2026-2027 award, Chicago-based Catholic Extension has received 46 nominees from dioceses all over the U.S. (OSV News photo/Benny Bautista, Catholic Extension Society)

Prison chaplain, reservation deacon among California's Lumen Christi nominees

OSV News|Jul 9, 2026|3 Min Read

Jean Fedigan, founder of the Sister José Women's Center in Tucson, Ariz., is seen in this undated photo. She is the winner of the 2022-2023 Lumen Christi Award. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)

Lumen Christi Award goes to founder of Tucson center serving women in need

Catholic News Service|Sep 23, 2022|3 Min Read

A member of the Puerto Rico National Guard wades through water Sept. 19, 2022, in search for people to be rescued from flooded streets in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Salinas, Puerto Rico. (CNS photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

San Juan archbishop struggles with slow communications following Fiona

Tom Tracy|Sep 22, 2022|3 Min Read

Fr. Stuart Long and Mark Wahlberg as Fr. Stu. (Diocese of Helena/Sony Pictures via CNA)

Father Stu honored as Catholic award finalist after Mark Wahlberg movie

Katie Yoder|Aug 23, 2022|3 Min Read

Students are seen in Uvalde, Texas, Aug. 15, 2022. Catholic Extension, a Chicago-based papal mission society, announced that same day it has awarded 30 full scholarships to survivors of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting who want to transfer to local Catholic school in Uvalde, Texas. Catholic Extension raises funds to help build up faith communities and construct churches in U.S. mission dioceses. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)

Survivors of Uvalde mass shooting get tuition aid to attend Catholic school

Catholic News Service|Aug 19, 2022|3 Min Read

Father Ron Foshage, a missionary of Our Lady of La Salette, is seen Sept. 9, 2020. He is Catholic Extension's 2020-2021 Lumen Christi Award honoree "for his tireless work" in the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, to bring people together regardless of color or religion and confront racial prejudice. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)

Faith

Texas missionary priest named winner of 2020-2021 Lumen Christi Award

Catholic News Service|Sep 17, 2020|3 Min Read

Sister Gabriela Luna Diaz, a member of the Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Teresa, visits a family in northwestern Wisconsin in this undated photo. She is part of Catholic Extension's U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program that helps Hispanic populations face the hardships of the coronavirus crisis. (CNS photo/Rich Kalonick, Catholic Extension)

Foundations' plan: $1,000 each for 1,000 nuns to allay COVID-19 impacts

Mark Pattison|Jun 24, 2020|5 Min Read

Cars in Coyote Canyon, N.M., on the Navajo reservation, line up to receive food at a food distribution point before the start of a weekend-long curfew May 15, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (David Wallace/CNS via Crux)

Missionary says Navajo can’t be forgotten after COVID-19 pandemic

Christopher White|Jun 9, 2020|4 Min Read

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