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It was the Pope’s first public appearance since being admitted to the hospital on Feb. 14. Throughout his prolonged hospital stay, several visitors — including children — have come to pray ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

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Vice President JD Vance is spending Easter weekend in Rome, where he’ll meet with a top Vatican official amid tension with the Catholic Church over the Trump administration’s hardline immigration ...

“As parents, Michael and I always prayed that our children would have a faith ... and received his first holy Communion,” she said of her son. Nikki Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the ...

When we receive our Lord in holy Communion ... first Sunday of Advent, let us take this opportunity to reflect on the manner in which we receive our Lord in holy Communion. It is my hope and ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first ... and three children, two of them teens. “He appears like one of our kids,” Barbon said of Acutis. “A special prayer to him is ...

“In the prayer ground, the air is filled with the joy of Eid. Children wait for this moment because it’s the only time they get to pray at the Eid Musallah. For me, these prayer grounds are ...

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