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Simone Orendain

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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Simone Orendain, OSV News

    Faith carries Catholics who lost family to 9/11 terror attacks 25 years ago (opens the original)

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    (OSV News) -- Joseph Connor had his back turned to the large window of his 36th floor office when he "suddenly more felt than heard" the massive impact of a commercial jet slamming into the north tower of the World Trade Center a third of a mile away on Sept. 11, 2001.As Connor watched pages and pages of office paper slowly rain down from the burning skyscraper against the clear sunny sky, the realization hit that his cousin Steven Schlag, a bond trader at the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald, w

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Simone Orendain, OSV News

    Illinois diocese puts brakes on eulogies and wakes in church before funeral Mass (opens the original)

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    (OSV News) -- An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass.Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield announced in a video and statement both dated July 1 that the practice of visitation (also known as a wake) in the church just before the liturgy is an anomaly "that has emerged over the past few years," and that within the funeral rites of the Catholic Church it is called a vigil for the decease

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Simone Orendain – OSV News

    Illinois diocese bans eulogies and wakes in church before funeral Mass (opens the original)

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    (OSV News) — An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass.Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield announced in a video and statement both dated July 1 that the practice of visitation (also known as a wake) in the church just before the liturgy is an anomaly “that has emerged over the past few years,” and that within the funeral rites of the Catholic Church it is called a vigil for the deceased

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Simone Orendain, OSV News

    Judge temporarily blocks Illinois assisted suicide law; plaintiffs feel 'relief, gratitude for now' (opens the original)

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    CHICAGO (OSV News) -- Illinois' physician-assisted suicide law, set to take effect Sept. 12, has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge for specific individuals.The order applies to "Catholic health care entities" under the authority of Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, four Catholic doctors and Lutheran Care Center, a nursing home in south-central Illinois. (Two Catholic hospital systems, the Hospital Sisters Health System and OSF Healthcare's Springfield campus, are both in the di

  5. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Simone Orendain – OSV News

    3 US-based leaders among 12 consultors named to Vatican human development office (opens the original)

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    (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has appointed three U.S.-based consultors, all with ties to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. They are among a dozen newly named consultors to the Vatican department created by Pope Francis in 2016. The Holy See Press Office on Aug. 18 announced the appointments of the 12, including Father Emmanuel Katongole, a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame; Kathryn Koch, president and CEO of the Los

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