National/World News

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220531T0815-GRANDPARENTS-ELDERLY-INDULGENCE-1715564-1024x461.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Vatican offers indulgence for World Day
for Grandparents and the Elderly" />

Vatican offers indulgence for World Day
for Grandparents and the Elderly

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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Any Catholic who participates in the celebration July 24 of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly…

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suffered double loss in Uvalde shooting" />

A Mass is said for children who
suffered double loss in Uvalde shooting

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By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — At a May 26 Mass, the Catholic community of Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde, Texas, comforted the four children…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220526T1112-HATE-CRIMES-ANTISEMITISM-1715444-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="His faith, religious freedom drives
lawmaker’s fight against antisemitism" />

His faith, religious freedom drives
lawmaker’s fight against antisemitism

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By EmmaLee Italia TRENTON, N.J. — U.S. Rep. Chris Smith’s long-standing work to fight antisemitism stems from his firmly held belief in religious freedom….

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220525T1402-UKRAINIAN-REFUGEE-HIGH-SCHOOL-1715394-1024x731.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Student who fled Ukraine
feels at home at
Maryland Catholic high school" />

Student who fled Ukraine
feels at home at
Maryland Catholic high school

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By Mark Zimmermann HYATTSVILLE, Md. — As musicians in the Advanced Percussion Ensemble of DeMatha Catholic High School gathered on stage for a recent…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220525T1104-BISHOPS-UVALDE-SHOOTING-1715395-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Mass shootings ‘most pressing
life issue,’ Texas bishop says" />

Mass shootings ‘most pressing
life issue,’ Texas bishop says

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By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — Some U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220525T1030-CANADA-INDIGENOUS-POPE-ELDER-1715330-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="For Indigenous Canadians,
Pope Francis’ age is advantage:
He’s an elder" />

For Indigenous Canadians,
Pope Francis’ age is advantage:
He’s an elder

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By Michael Swan TORONTO — For six days in July, the most important thing happening in Canada will be an old man confronting the…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220524T1533-BUFFALO-SHOOTING-MEMORIALS-1715322-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Remembering Buffalo shooting victims,
Catholics pray for end to racism" />

Remembering Buffalo shooting victims,
Catholics pray for end to racism

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By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — From a Franciscan parish in a city where one of the victims once lived to a border city that…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220525T0715-POPE-TEXAS-SHOOTING-1715357-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Pope prays for
Texas shooting victims,
calls for stricter gun laws" />

Pope prays for
Texas shooting victims,
calls for stricter gun laws

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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Saying his heart was broken at the news of at least 19 children and two adults being shot and killed…

<img src="https://therecordnewspaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220520T1653-SYNOD-LISTENING-SESSION-STUDENTS-1715062-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-post-image first-post-image" alt="Students share joys, concerns about
church at synod listening sessions" />

Students share joys, concerns about
church at synod listening sessions

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PHILADELPHIA — Jennifer McMahon, a sophomore biology major at Villanova University, said recent campus listening sessions in preparation for the Catholic Church’s 2023 synod…