When we lose something—or think we’ve lost it—we treasure it that much more.

Proclaiming the Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis appealed to the world’s wealthiest nations to “acknowledge the gravity of so many of their past decisions and determine to forgive the debts of countries that will never be able to repay them.”

Over 300 Catholic women from all walks of life will gather in Washington from June 8 to 12 to participate in the GIVEN Art of Accompaniment Mentoring Program and the Catholic Women’s Leadership Forum. It will be the fifth GIVEN forum since the group’s founding; the previous forums were held in 2019, 2020 (online), 2021 and 2022.

“Even as beautiful as this place is, even as beautiful as any church or altar or tabernacle or sacred vessel, you were created to hold God and to be the vessel that carries him into the world,” Bishop Lewandowski said, “so that the world might know his loving presence, his grace, his goodness, his mercy and his salvation.”

As Western heads of state and government gathered in northern France to mark 80 years since the monumental D-Day invasion that helped secure victory in World War II, one veteran, now age 100, had special memories to share.