VATICAN CITY (CNS)–The joint celebration of the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions is an opportunity to remind all Catholics that the duty to welcome and assist migrants is also part of each person’s obligation to share God’s love, Pope Leo XIV said.

(OSV News)–In his first apostolic exhortation, Pope Leo XIV has taken up the call of Pope Francis for Christians to see in the poor the very face of Christ–and to be a church that “walks poor with the poor” in order to authentically live out the Gospel.

(OSV News)–Scenes of joy, relief and tearful welcomes flooded media across the world Oct. 13 as the remaining Israeli hostages were freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

ATLANTA—The St. Thomas More Society’s annual Red Mass, celebrated Oct. 9 at the Cathedral of Christ the King, signifies the beginning of a judicial calendar year

WASHINGTON–A coalition of Catholic organizations held prayer vigils across the country on Oct. 22 for what organizers called “a national day of public witness for our immigrant brothers and sisters.”

ATLANTA—Maureen Smith, who is the chief communications officer for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, will be the next speaker for the Magnificat Meal to be held on Nov. 15.

HAPEVILLE—St. John the Evangelist School has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence for the fourth time, marking another milestone in its history of academic achievement.

(OSV News)–In his first apostolic exhortation, Pope Leo XIV has taken up the call of Pope Francis for Christians to see in the poor the very face of Christ–and to be a church that “walks poor with the poor” in order to authentically live out the Gospel.

ATLANTA—A moving experience at Christmas Eve Mass led Doug and Katrina Harmon back to the faith after nearly 20 years away. Like many other Catholics, their personal faith journey inspired their charitable giving through the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia.

ATLANTA—Lawyers, former inmates and leaders of justice reform were among the nearly 140 participants who attended a restorative justice conference rooted in Catholic social teaching.

ATLANTA—Zoe Leiner sets the beat for the 23-member Marching Golden Lions band standing atop a podium as she signals with her hands, revealing a secret code.

LITHIA SPRINGS—When 11-year-old Kenneth Henderson stepped up to the ambo at St. John Vianney Church in Lithia Springs, he was ready to proclaim the reading during the parish’s first sensory Mass. Midway through the liturgy, a baby began to cry.

VATICAN CITY (CNS)–When people hit “rock bottom,” they can be confident that God is there ready to rescue and redeem them, Pope Leo XIV said.

ATLANTA—Thirty-one musicians participate in Marist School Marching Band.

ALANTA—Archbishop Eusebius Joseph Beltran, archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, died Sept. 12 at age 91. Archbishop Beltran was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta in 1960.

ROME (CNS)–In a frescoed hall of a building housing the Catholic Church’s highest courts, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke about faith, mercy, tradition and hope.

NORCROSS—Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., and Father Branson Hipp, of the Catholic Center at Georgia Tech, hosted a question-and-answer session following the Mass of Thanksgiving for St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati on Sept. 7.

There are moments in life that are etched into our memory forever. Sept. 11, 2001, is one such moment—when, in less than two hours, thousands of families, our nation, and the world were changed forever.

ATLANTA–Sister Mary Kateri, OP, (Cecelia Anne Pickering) died on Sept. 19 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta.

ATLANTA–Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., offered prayer for Atlanta’s Jewish community as they prepare to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown Sept. 22.