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A Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an “alert and conscious” teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will.

Catholic educators in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis are aware of the need to help students and families form healthy relationships with technology, and the archdiocese’s Office for the Mission of Catholic Education has developed a series of aspirational goals to help meet that need.

This week’s featured photos are from Pope Francis’ trip to Mongolia Sept. 1-4.

A group of 24 modern apostles visited both the work and living sites of some of the Mexican-born agricultural workers who grow and harvest the fruit and vegetables that Washington state ships around the world.

Following his usual practice of speaking about a trip, Pope Francis explains why he traveled close to 6,000 miles to Mongolia to visit a Catholic community of only 1,450 people.

Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis show their commitment to providing an excellent education and are working to secure accreditation for their schools.

When Józef and Wiktoria Ulma are beatified with their children Sept. 10, eight decades after they were shot by Nazis for sheltering Jews in their farmhouse near the village of Markowa in southeastern Poland, it will be a graphic reminder of the heroism shown by many Catholic Poles during the Holocaust.

Photos featured this week include a Ukrainian Independence Day celebration in Philadelphia, Mass aboard Pilot Boat New York in Newark Bay, Pope Francis traveling to Mongolia and former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.