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A flag of Vatican City State flies outside Piazza Pio XII, the main entrance to St. Peter’s Square, on July 16, 2026. | Credit: Ishmael Adibuah/EWTN News

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A celtic cross is seen at dawn inside a retreat house on the Isle of Iona, July 7, 2018, in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. | Credit: Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images

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The new illicitly ordained Catholic bishops — French Marc Hanappier, French Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, American Michael Goldade and Swiss Pascal Schreiber — stand next to Swiss traditionalist Catholic Bishop of the Society of Saint Pius X Bernard Fellay during a schismatic consecration in Econe, western Switzerland, on July 1, 2026. | Credit: Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images

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St. Francis of Assisi. | Bradley Weber via Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0.

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Creedo App founder Caleb Burbach, July 30, 2026. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Caleb Burbach

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This statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is located on Apparition Hill, overlooking the village of Medjugorje. | Credit: Adam Jan Figel/Shutterstock

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Nearly 900 Secular Carmelites from around the world met in Ávila Spain, July 23–26, 2026, for the first world meeting of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. | Credit: Photo courtesy of OCDS World Encounter/Gonzalo Gonzalez de Vega Pomar

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Christian Tornau, professor of Latin at the University of Würzburg in Germany, reads a manuscript on screen of what is believed to be a previously undiscovered sermon by St. Augustine. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Professor Tornau

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St. Dominic by Fra Angelico. | Credit: Public domain

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Pope Leo XIV addresses, via a videotaped message, the Knights of Columbus 144th Supreme Convention Opening Session in Denver on Aug. 4, 2026. | Credit: EWTN/Screenshot

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Sister Allison Gliot author of the “In Aeternum” trilogy, which concludes with the third and final book, “The Dawn We Seek.” | Credit: Photo courtesy of Pauline Books & Media

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Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered at Castel Gandolfo for the recitation of the Angelus on July 26, 2026. | Credit: Vatican News

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Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus on Aug. 2, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media

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Father Arsanios Wadid, a priest of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Paul the Apostle in Alexandria’s Karmouz-Moharam Bek district, was participating in a weekly parish gathering at one of the city’s beaches when he was fatally stabbed from behind on April 7, 2022. | Credit: Coptic Orthodox Church/Mikhail Adly

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Monsignor Mario León Dorado, OMI, a Spanish missionary who serves as apostolic prefect of Western Sahara, has been appointed apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Rabat, Morocco. | Credit: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

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A masked man is caught on camera destroying a statue of the Blessed Mother at St. Rita Catholic Church in Queens, New York, Aug. 1, 2026. | Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Brooklyn/St. Rita Catholic Church

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Jonathan Roumie, the actor who portrays Jesus in “The Chosen,” in the wild with Bear Grylls. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Prime Video/Amazon MGM Studios

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Kenneth Goedeke. | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Harford County Sheriff’s Department

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As New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act takes effect for qualified terminally ill patients, Colleen De Vos shares the story of her father, a Catholic with a terminal illness who ended his life through Canada’s MAID program in 2023. | Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot