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PARIS — It was an emotional welcome when 48 veterans from around the U.S. arrived at the Deauville-Normandy Airport June 4 on board a special flight from Atlanta to celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6. France's first...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis reportedly told a young gay man to "keep going" with his vocational search after he told the pope he felt called to the priesthood but was turned away by an Italian seminary because he...
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden June 4 signed an executive order aimed at reducing unauthorized border crossings by asylum-seekers. The move was expected and comes as Biden faces increasing political pressure on the issue of migration in the midst...
MONTREAL -- André Denis, a retired Quebec superior court judge mandated by Pope Francis to investigate accusations of sexual abuse made against Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix, Archbishop of Quebec, has said he found no evidence to support the accusations....
The fourth season of the Biblically-based television series "The Chosen" began streaming, Sunday, June 2. Although all eight episodes of the new season had been released in theaters beginning in February, streaming availability had been delayed -- reportedly by...
VATICAN CITY -- Every encounter with people on the move as migrants or refugees is an encounter with Christ, Pope Francis said. "It is an occasion charged with salvation because Jesus is present in the sister or brother in need...
VATICAN CITY  -- Although Pope Francis usually takes the month of July off -- except for leading the recitation of the Angelus on Sundays -- he will hold a consistory with cardinals in Rome July 1 for the final...
The Catholic Project, an initiative of The Catholic University of America, will host a panel on Catholic dating July 19 at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. The event -- titled "Catholic Dating: Why Is It So Hard?" -- seeks...
Ursuline’s soccer team lost three of its last four regular-season games, but that just might have provided the Raiders with the edge they needed to make a deep run in the state tournament. Ursuline, seeded eighth in the 12-team...
VATICAN CITY -- Catholics will not positively influence fiscal policy unless they also develop an intricate knowledge of the financial system's weaknesses and flaws, Pope Francis said. For Catholic social teaching to become a "compass" for financial structures and policy,...