A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] After months of anxiety over the possibility that mass deportations ...

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The Italian bishops were so confident that he would be chosen that after the white smoke emerged from the Vatican chimney, a senior Italian church official sent a message to reporters expressing ...

GROVE CITY – The Grace United Methodist Church is raising money for the Community United Methodist Church of the Pacific Palisades, in Las Angeles, which is facing massive devastation following ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced.

Those over 80 can’t vote but can participate in pre-conclave meetings, known as general congregations, in which church problems are discussed. It was in these meetings in 2013 that then-Cardinal ...

Pope Francis nominated Farrell in 2019 to be the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church with the responsibility of administering the property and revenues of the Holy See. In 2020, Francis also ...

The pope and the president remade the Catholic church and American politics in their outsider images, but their relationship was defined by their remarkable clashes. By Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth ...

The church authorities sent him into de facto exile in Germany and then to Córdoba, Argentina, a period he later described as “a time of great interior crisis.” After becoming pope ...

Although the indult has long since expired, the tradition continues, deeply woven into local custom despite lacking official recognition from the Church ... called the Convento de la Asunción ...

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A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church is believed to have been built in part u ...