Nation/World

Photos featured this week include a 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee girl,  a health care workers strike in Los Angeles and demonstrators marching in Washington in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

Pope Francis has recognized the miraculous healing of a toddler in Argentina as the miracle needed for the beatification of Argentine Cardinal Eduardo Pironio.

If it would not cause scandal or confusion among other Catholics, “a transsexual may receive baptism under the same conditions as other faithful,” said a document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, a top adviser to Pope Francis on matters involving canon law, denied reports the pope had asked him to draft revisions to the rules governing the preparations for electing a new pope.

Thousands of children representing every continent joined Pope Francis for the event “Let Us Learn from Boys and Girls” to focus attention on children’s simple and sincere desires for peace and harmony in the world.

Photos featured this week include All Saints Day Mass in St. James, New York, Angelus with Pope Francis and more.

The Fellowship of Catholic University Students has grown greatly in the 25 years since launching in 1998. Now most U.S. states have multiple university campuses served by FOCUS missionaries.

A parishioner and his family of Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore, has extended his life into both music and what’s known as homestead farming.