Despite fears of low turnout related to immigration concerns, some 20,000 Catholics came out for the annual event.

He also prayed that families find strength, young people find meaning and people of faith seek greater communion.

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Servant of God Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận spent 12 years in prison, nine in solitary confinement.

As they do essential work for the safety of Italy and its citizens -- and often help the Vatican as well -- the officers and ...

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The Prophet Micah lived in the eighth century before Christ, and he lived in the declining years of the Davidic dynasty. A ...

Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Brueghel the Elder’s “The Census at Bethlehem” places the Holy Family’s pre-Christmas ...

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I believe in God because I sense God’s presence at a gut level, as a silent voice, as a call, an invitation, a moral ...

In the Philippines -- where Pope Pius XI named her patroness in 1935 -- thousands of faithful are expected to visit the ...

George Clooney as a movie star on a soul-searching trip. It is not a film about a movie star, but rather a two-hour ...