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A knight for the family desk
On 25 August Pope Leo XIV named Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. The Vatican bulletin is one sentence. The work is not.
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Grace Whitfield
Christian desk
Grace Whitfield is The Gold Standard's Christian correspondent. Whitfield covers parishes, university campuses and houses of faith, and reports the church as ordinary news, open to every reader.
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The campuses filled the class
Hallow’s August study of nearly sixty U.S. colleges finds OCIA participation up 87.6 percent in a year. Newman Centers are outrunning the dioceses.
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The statue went out on the water
Pope Leo XIV became the first pope to ride the Marian procession across Lake Albano. Castel Gandolfo has waited four centuries for that boat.