The Catacombs of St. Domitilla are believed to be the world’s oldest existing Christian cemetery and are among the largest in Italy with a total of some 150,000 burial spots.
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Why does Pentecost come at the time of spring harvest?
The Spirit is the Lord of the Harvest. The Spirit brings it, brings us, to fruition.
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Why these cloistered nuns are taking to Facebook
The 10 nuns who live behind the high walls of the convent in Oristano are breaking their silence and turning their back on tradition.
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‘Capitalism gives a moral cloak to inequality,’ Pope Francis says at Italian steel plant
Condemning an economy that encourages speculation more than entrepreneurship, warning priests and religious that they share responsibility for the vocations crisis and telling young people they are right to be puzzled by nations that close their doors to people fleeing persecution, Pope Francis spent a busy day in Genoa. Besides being packed with pastoral appointments, […]
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How Pope Francis is healing the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship
While some Pentecostals in some parts of the world, especially in Latin America, have a reputation for trying to convince Catholics to leave the church, the reality of the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship is much more varied.
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Paying our respects to Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle’s essays were filled with grace and unconcerned with grammar.
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I never realized how much stuff I owned—until I had to move it.
Three huge bags of baby clothes! My baby is 25. Why have I saved these things?
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Trudeau asks Pope Francis to apologize for church’s harm of Canada’s indigenous people
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he asked Pope Francis to help Canadians “move forward on a real reconciliation” with the country’s indigenous people.
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The Queens of Chavara: Carmelite sisters at ground zero of India’s AIDS epidemic
“Yes, some are H.I.V.-positive, but what is that?” asks Sister Agie. “They are precious children; they have their whole life before them.”
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Pope Francis shakes up church with his cardinal choices, reflecting Catholic demographics
Francis has also overturned the tradition of choosing bishops who are in charge of prestigious dioceses or Vatican departments as cardinals.