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The rites and rituals following the death of a pope, his funeral and burial, explained
The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...
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How the Shroud of Turin Still Puzzles the Scientific Age
In an age obsessed with scanning, measuring and proving, the Shroud invites modern minds to reconsider the Resurrection — and ...
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At Easter Sunday Mass, Cardinal McElroy says Jesus’s Resurrection gives hope to people’s lives and guides their journeys of faith
Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...
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The Column Split by Divine Fire: A 1579 Holy Sepulchre Miracle
This annual ritual, held on Holy Saturday (the day before Orthodox Easter), is a central tradition in Orthodox Christianity, ...
Pope Francis dead, the Jesuit from the ‘end of the world’ to the center of the universal Church
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died today. Argentinian, he was the first pontiff from the American continent. Before him, no one else had been elected head of the universal Catholic Church ...