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The liturgical furniture designed by designer and sculptor Guillaume Bardet, seen in an undated photo, is composed of five elements in the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: the altar, the cathedra and the associated seats, the ambo, the tabernacle and the baptistery. Each of the pieces was designed in sculpted bronze, a material offering a powerful, timeless and luminous aesthetic.

Tradition will meet subtle modernity in restored Notre Dame Cathedral

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The excitement is mounting in Paris ahead of the Dec. 8 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral with only a few cranes remaining on the outside of the iconic French church.

The flag of North Dakota is seen in this illustration photo taken August 21, 2024.

North Dakota judge overturns state's abortion ban, AG says he will appeal

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A North Dakota judge overturned that state's near-total abortion ban Sept. 12, ruling the state's constitution permits abortion until viability.

Musician Jon Bon Jovi gestures onstage during the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala in Los Angeles Feb. 2, 2024.

'Livin' on a prayer': Catholic-raised Bon Jovi helps save woman on Nashville bridge

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Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman's life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10.

Jane Gaudreau, second from left, mother of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, and Meredith Gaudreau, middle in blue, widow of Johnny Gaudreau, a winger with the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team, watch with family and friends as a hearse carries away the casket of Johnny Gaudreau, following the funeral Mass for him and his brother at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Media, Pa., Sept. 9, 2024. The brothers died after being hit by a drunk driver while riding bicycles in New Jersey Aug. 29. Not only is Meredith pregnant, so is Matthew's widow, Madeline, who is expecting the couple's first child.

Widows of Catholic NHL star, brother testify to faith, love and new life at joint funeral

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Perseverance, fortitude, grit and calm in the face of a storm often accompany the description of prominent athletes. At the funeral Mass of deceased brothers Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau Sept. 9 however, it was their wives who emulated the aforementioned attributes as they took turns giving words of remembrance for their fallen husbands.

Polish Father Michal Olszewski, of the Priests of the Sacred Heart order, is seen in screenshot from a video of him walking to a police van from a court building in Warsaw Poland, on Sept. 6, 2024, the day he testified on his claims of being tortured in prison. A well-known retreat master, the priest was arrested March 26 as Internal Security Agency officials raided Sacred Heart houses in an investigation of the order's receipt of grants from the previous government to use in part for a center for abuse victims.

Head of Sacred Heart order appeals to Polish authorities to respect dignity of arrested priest

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As the superior general of the Sacred Heart order appealed to Polish authorities to ensure an arrested Polish priest's "dignity" is "respected," defenders have accused the country's government of using Father Michal Olszewski as a political prisoner and urged the Catholic Church to speak up on his behalf.

People participate in a funeral ceremony in Lviv, Ukraine, Sept. 6, 2024, for Evgenia Bazylevych and her three daughters, killed during the Russian missile attack on Sept. 4. Yaroslav, her husband, was the only family member who survived the attack.

Thousands mourn Ukrainian family killed in a Russian strike on Lviv

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Lviv mourned the victims of the Sept. 4 Russian strike on the residential buildings as thousands gathered Sept. 6 for funeral services of a mother and her three daughters.

After river flooding had forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France Sept. 7, 2024, the grotto was cleaned and was reopened, with no pilgrimages canceled. Flooded grotto is seen on screenshot of the sanctuary's Sept. 7 video.

Flash flooding temporarily closes Lourdes' grotto

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River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to visitors. A morning Mass, however, was canceled Sept. 7 at the major Catholic pilgrimage site, which has experienced several major floods in recent years.

Pope Francis greets the faithful outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption before a meeting with bishops, priests, deacons, religious, seminarians and pastoral workers in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sept. 4, 2024.

Suspects who threatened Pope Francis arrested in Indonesia, local police say

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Not long after Pope Francis left Indonesia, authorities there announced they had arrested seven people for making online "terror threats" against the pope.

A law enforcement officer works near the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., Sept. 4, 2024.

Multiple dead after mass shooting at Georgia high school

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A mass shooting took place at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 4, local officials reported.

Archbishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno, Poland, delivers homily Aug. 26, 2024, during Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa at the shrine of Jasna Góra in Czestochowa.

Polish church defends religious teaching against new government curbs

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Poland's Catholic bishops have urged schools to continue offering religious teaching after government attempts to restrict it were blocked by the Constitutional Tribunal following church appeals.

Interior of historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the northern French town of Saint-Omer is seen in an undated photo. A man was taken into police custody after a major fire broke out at the church in the morning hours of Sept. 2, 2024. causing its bell tower to collapse.

Bell tower at historic church in northern France collapses in arson fire

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A man was taken into police custody after a major fire broke out at the historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the northern French town of Saint-Omer in the morning hours of Sept. 2, causing its bell tower to collapse.

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