Thanks to a handful of countries, including the Vatican, some 1,600 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia have been reunited with family members in Ukraine.

When it comes to creative, attention-getting fashion that always makes people smile, participants at the National Catholic Youth Conference have a tradition of wearing a wide variety of headgear that adds another flavor of fun to the faith-filled event.

Two Belarusian Catholic priests listed as political prisoners of the regime were freed Nov. 20, following the October visit of papal envoy to the country.

A funeral Mass for Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Agnes Rose McNally was offered Nov. 14 at Our Lady of Victory in Arbutus. Sister Agnes Rose died Nov. 6 in Worcester, Mass. She was 97.

The U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 19 called on the faithful to observe a nationwide prayer vigil Jan. 22-23 “to pray for an end to abortion and a greater respect for all human life in post-Roe America.”