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Rebbetzin Shoshana Glustein and her Two Daughters, A”h, of Ofakim By R. Daykin Rebbetzin Shoshana Glustein of Ofakim, and her daughters Chaya Sarah and Chana, a”h, were brought to their final plac...

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Pope Francis attends the funeral Mass of Cardinal Angelo Sodano in St. Peters Basilica, May 31, 2022. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, May 31, 2022 / 06:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Tuesday attended the funeral Mass of the former Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano.Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, presided at the ceremony in St. Peters Basilica on May 31.Photographs showed the 85-year-old pope seated in a wheelchair as the Mass was celebrated at the ...

Cardinal Angelo Sodano speaks at the funeral Mass for the former archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law, who died in 2017. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.Vatican City, May 28, 2022 / 04:15 am (CNA).Cardinal Angelo Sodano, former Vatican diplomat and retired secretary of state, died on Friday at the age of 94.The ex-dean of the College of Cardinals had contracted pneumonia after becoming ill with COVID-19; He had been hospitalized since May 9 at Romes Columbus Hospital. His funeral will be held in St. P...

From the blog of Samantha Gabrielle Ferszt at The Times of Israel

A Caritas-Spes worker brings aid to people near Kyiv, Ukraine. / Private archive. Vorzel, Ukraine, Apr 13, 2022 / 03:20 am (CNA). When Catholic volunteers arrived in the recently liberated Ukrainian village of Vorzel, they met an elderly woman ...

A Caritas-Spes worker brings aid to people near Kyiv, Ukraine. / Private archive.Vorzel, Ukraine, Apr 13, 2022 / 03:20 am (CNA).When Catholic volunteers arrived in the recently liberated Ukrainian village of Vorzel, they met an elderly woman called Nina. She was standing in line for aid from Caritas-Spes, the charitable mission of the Latin Rite bishops of Ukraine, with her friend, Katya. When the area outside the capital Kyiv was occupied by Russian soldiers, the two women hid in basements or ...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols joined his brother bishops from the London area, alongside the Papal Nuncio His Excellency Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, for a short service of prayer at Londons Ukrainian Cathedral to pray for peace in Ukraine.Days earlier, Pope Francis had called for a...

Thirty-three percent of Jews raised Orthodox do not continue to identify with Orthodoxy as adults