Pope Francis health: How the papal funeral will be different this time
The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...
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Archaeologists discover tomb of Thutmose II — 1st ancient Egyptian burial of a pharaoh to be found in 100 years
The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings.
Where Will Pope Francis Be Buried? Pontiff Reportedly To Be Laid At Santa Maria Maggiore
Speculation over Pope Francis' final resting place has intensified following reports that the Vatican has begun rehearsing ...
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Why is Saint Francis de Sales the patron saint of journalists?
Saint Francis de Sales Oratory (St. Louis, Missouri) — St. Francis de Sales mosaic. (Photo by Nheyob / CC BY-SA 4.0) Francis de Sales was born August 21, 1567, into a noble Savoyard family.
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Could an Englishman be Zimbabwe’s first saint?
Source: Could an Englishman be Zimbabwe’s first saint? Is Zimbabwe on its way to having its first Catholic saint? And might ...
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Freemasonry and Catholicism: John Edusei’s response to Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu
The Assistant Provincial Grand Master North of the Grand Lodge of Ghana, John Edusei, has responded to a letter from Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, addressing the long-standing debate on the ...
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Sister Patricia Scanlan, who cared for the ill as a member of the Carmelite Sisters of Baltimore, dies
where she attended grade school at St. Francis of Assisi. After graduating from Mount St. Joseph Academy in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, she attended nursing school at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in ...
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The ‘Real’ Francis of Assisi Includes the Stuff of Legend
Maybe that is part of their charisma, suggests Volker Leppin in his biography Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint, newly translated after first being published in German. For a ...
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Saint Laurent
What a one for the ages movie scene this would have been: A meeting in the very early 1980s between Yves Saint Laurent, the undisputed (if oftentimes dissolute) king of Paris haute couture ...
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Diane Francis: An 'existential crisis' of Canada's own making
In 1995, I interviewed Matthew Coon Come, who served as grand chief of the Grand Council of the Cree in Quebec. The Cree and Inuit have rights over the northern two-thirds of Quebec and rejected ...
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St. Francis home uninhabitable after fire; cause under investigation
A fire damaged a home in St. Francis early Monday morning, Jan. 27. It happened near Howard Avenue and Iowa Avenue. The occupants have reportedly found temporary housing. ST. FRANCIS ...
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Pope Francis urges eradication of antisemitism, says horror of the Holocaust must never be forgotten
Pope Francis warned of the "scourge of antisemitism" in his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the ...