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Seattle Seahawks No. 72, offensive tackle Abraham ”Abe“ Lucas — a self-described ”hard-core Catholic“ — is pictured in 2022 during a game against the Atlanta Falcons.

Football’s the dream, but faith is his focal point

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In his second year as an offensive tackle for the Seattle Seahawks, Abraham “Abe” Lucas is living his childhood dream. Even so, it’s faith, not football, that’s the most important thing for this self-described “hard-core Catholic.”

Father Marko Rupnik is pictured in a 2015 photo in Rome. The Vatican announced Oct. 27 that an investigation into allegations of abuse against Father Rupnik has been reopened.

As Rupnik investigation reopens, debate continues over use of his art

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Two days after news broke Father Marko Rupnik was incardinated by Slovenia's Koper diocese, the Vatican announced Oct. 27 that Pope Francis has lifted the statute of limitations on abuse accusations against Father Rupnik to allow for a formal investigation of the case by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Debris surrounds St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza Oct. 20, 2023, after an explosion went off the night before.

Young Christians a lifeline to Gaza neighbours

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In a media world that portrays the Israel-Palestine conflict as simple hostility between people of the Judaic and Muslim faiths, the Christian presence in Palestine is minimized or erased.

Women react outside St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza Oct. 20, 2023, after an explosion went off the night before. Several hundred people had been sheltering at the church complex, many of them sleeping, at the time of the explosion.

Gaza Catholic parish mourns fellow Christians killed in blast at Greek Orthodox complex

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For Mother María del Pilar Llerena Vargas, "it was an image that will be very difficult to erase." The Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word from Peru, who is serving in the Catholic parish in Gaza, recalled the pain of watching the funeral of Christians killed in an Oct. 19 blast at a Greek Orthodox church.

U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill, is pictured with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2021. The pontiff and Biden spoke by phone Oct. 22, 2023, to discuss the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza and facilitating a path to "durable peace" in the region.

Biden and Pope Francis discuss conflict in Israel and Gaza in phone call

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President Joe Biden and Pope Francis spoke by phone Oct. 22 to discuss the conflict in Israel and Gaza and facilitating a path to "durable peace" in the region, according to the press offices of both leaders.

Debris surrounds St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza Oct. 20, 2023, after an explosion went off the night before. Several hundred people had been sheltering at the church complex, many of them sleeping, at the time of the explosion. The Hamas Ministry of Interior in Gaza blamed the explosion on an Israeli airstrike but responsibility for it had not yet been independently verified.

Greek Orthodox church in Gaza damaged in blast

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An explosion at the St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church campus in Gaza has left the administration building in ruins, and at least 17 people dead, though numbers have not yet been officially confirmed.

The father of Alma Al Majayda, 3, killed in an Israeli airstrike, reacts while carrying her body during the child’s funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Oct. 19, 2023, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist terrorist group Hamas.

Palestine ambassador says Vatican should play role in mediating end of 'carnage'

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The Vatican, especially Pope Francis, must double its efforts and urge the international community to end the massacre of Palestinians killed in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war, Palestine's ambassador to Denmark said.

Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of Moscow poses for a photo in front of the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 13.

Russian Catholics embrace Pope’s support of Ukraine: archbishop

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Men, women and children are seen behind barbed wire after the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

Scholars note mixed Vatican response to Holocaust

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Scholars at a conference examining the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII presented a mixed bag on how the Vatican responded to the horrors of the Holocaust.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks during a meeting in Managua Nicaragua Nov. 8, 2018.

Nicaragua expels a dozen priests, sends them to the Vatican, Ortega regime says

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Nicaragua has expelled a dozen priests held as political prisoners as the increasingly tyrannical regime continues sending clergy into exile and cracking down on the Catholic Church.

A nurse holds a baby at the St. Rachel’s Centre, Caritas Baby Hospital, one of the projects the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre supports in the Holy Land.

EOHSJ intensifies efforts amid Holy Land conflict

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Amid the devastating violence in Israel and Gaza following Hamas’ deadly surprise attack on Oct. 7, with thousands of casualties on both sides, the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem has vowed to intensify its already considerable efforts in the Holy Land.

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