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FILE LIFE VIGIL WASHINGTON SHRINE
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Recent study results from the Barna Group — a leading marketing research firm focused on the intersection between faith and culture — confirm what the Gospels already tell us: Faith grows best in fellowship.

A file photo shows a herd of bison graze in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (OSV News photo/Jim Urquhart , Reuters)
More than 230 pilgrimages across the US mark 10 years of ‘Laudato Si”

To celebrate three occasions — the worldwide Jubilee 2025; the 10th anniversary of the 2015 release of Pope Francis’ landmark environmental encyclical “Laudato Si'”; and the annual ecumenical Season of Creation Sept. 1-Oct. 4 — Catholics across America have committed themselves to spiritual expeditions not on the well-worn pilgrimage routes of Europe but in their own communities.