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Theodore McCarrick, who has died aged 94, was for decades one of the key players in American Catholicism. His spectacular ...

Next week begins the Week called Holy, with Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on April 13 and concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20. Toward the end ...

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In life Francis I, 'Most Christian King' of a France that only sixty years before his accession had finally expelled English occupiers from the realm (and had still to tolerate Calais as an English ...

In 2025, the penance service will be celebrated ... Members of the San Lorenzo youth center hold a banner in St. Peter‘s Square the night of Pope Francis’ election on March 13, 2013.

Pope Francis hears a man’s confession during a Lenten penance service March 8, 2024, at the parish of St. Pius V in Rome. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN (CNS) — Priests must recognize that it is a ...