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The Vatican press office announced that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith’s declaration on human dignity, said to include a faith-based critique of “gender ideologies” and surrogacy, will be released April 8.

Pope Francis was “deeply saddened” to learn of the loss of life and damage caused by the earthquake in Taiwan, and he expressed his closeness to and solidarity with all those affected.

Seven staff members of World Central Kitchen died April 1 when their three-vehicle convoy was hit in an Israeli air attack. Catholic aid workers in Gaza are determined to continue their mission after that deadly strike.

Within 24 hours after Archbishop William E. Lori asked Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore to support twin emergency relief funds for those affected by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, nearly $50,000 was raised in online donations.

More than 200 people gathered in prayer at a Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore just a few hours after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River March 26.

Photos featured this week include the first day of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, a protest at Place du Trocadero in Paris  and more.

Family farming is the key to making systems of food production and consumption more “inclusive, resilient and efficient,” Pope Francis said.

Five U.S. priests will travel to Rome in April to share their experiences of parish life with the ongoing Synod of Bishops on synodality. The group — selected by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as part of a 300-member worldwide delegation — also will speak with Pope Francis.