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Four centuries later, Easter’s date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change
Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...
Pope Francis, still recovering, skips Rome's annual Good Friday procession
Pope Francis, still recovering from double pneumonia, did not attend an annual procession on Friday at Rome's Colosseum with ...
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This Easter, with the Pope Ailing, Will the Catholic Church Stand Up to Trump?
Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...
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JD Vance visits the Vatican despite Pope Francis' stinging criticism of VP's policies
Vice-President JD Vance, who has been a vocal critic of the Pope's views on migration, was in the Vatican for meetings with ...
Pope Francis’ Easter is going to look a little different this year. Here’s how
Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...
JD Vance to spend Easter in Rome amid tiff with Pope Francis
Vance’s visit to the seat of Catholicism during the Church’s holiest days of the year comes under the shadow of his public ...
Vance, Catholic at odds with Pope Francis, attends Vatican's Good Friday service
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic who has clashed with Pope Francis over the Trump administration's immigration ...
Pope Francis and Laudato Si’: an ecological turning point for the Catholic Church
Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...
After tensions with pope, Vance, a Catholic convert, to visit Vatican
The vice president’s trip comes as Vatican officials are alarmed by the Trump administration’s campaign against migrants and ...
How did the Catholic Church select Carlo Acutis to become first millennial saint?
Born in 1991, an Italian boy will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation on April 27.
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Vance discusses migration during Vatican meeting with pope's right-hand man
US Vice President JD Vance met with the Vatican's second-highest official on Saturday, in which they discussed the thorny ...
Vatican’s solemn run-up to Easter opens with recovering Pope Francis improving but on the sidelines
The Vatican is opening the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines.