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Six brand new washers and dryers donated by Whirlpool are featured at the Pope Francis Laundry facility in Rome, a new laundromat opened April 10 by the Papal Almoner's Office for the city's homeless. (CNS photo/courtesy of the Papal Almoner's Office)
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The 'Pope Francis Laundry' for Rome's homeless opens at Vatican
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
The "Lavanderia di Papa Francesco" ("Pope Francis Laundry") is a free service "offered to the poorest people."
Women cry during the funeral for those killed in a Palm Sunday church attack in Alexandria Egypt, at the Mar Amina church, on Monday, April 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Samer Abdallah)
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Egyptian Christians left to bury their dead after church bombings
Brian Rohan, Associated Press
Women wailed as caskets marked with the word "martyr" were brought into the St. Mina monastery in Alexandria.
Relatives and onlookers gather outside a church after a bomb attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. The attack took place on Palm Sunday, the start of the Holy Week leading up to Easter, when the church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta was packed with worshippers. (AP Photo/Ahmed Hatem)
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Pope Francis on Palm Sunday decries attack on Coptic church in Egypt
Daniela Petroff - Associated PressHamza Hendawi - Associated Press
Pope Francis asked God "to convert the hearts of those who spread terror, violence and death, and also the hearts of those who make, and traffic in, weapons."
Residents of an “Indian school,” Regina, Saskatchewan, 1908.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
A pilgrimage for indigenous rights mobilizes faith communities in Canada
Dean Dettloff
Because of their sponsorship of “Indian schools,” Christians have a unique role to play in healing the wounds of the past.
The USS Porter, in the Mediterranean Sea, fires a Tomahawk missile April 7. The U.S. Defense Department said it was a part of missile strike against Syria. (CNS photo/Ford Williams, U.S. Navy handout via Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Syrian Catholic leaders criticize U.S. missile strikes, experts question larger strategy
Kevin Clarke
“We need to have a national debate on these things; it’s not a decision for the president to make in the dead of night.”
Politics & SocietyVantage Point
The Supreme Court, the Senate and the Filibuster
The Editors
Republican senators invoking the “nuclear option” to confirm Justice Gorsuch is a new development. But contention over the court and the filibuster has a long history.
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