Pope Francis met privately with former Cuban president Fidel Castro on Sunday, a meeting the Vatican described as “friendly and informal.”
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Javier and Yolanda Valdez and their two daughters are packed to board a red-eye out of McCarran International Airport on Monday, heading east to join more than a million pilgrims hoping to receive a blessing next week from Pope Francis.
“What day is today?” Rabbi Sanford Akselrad quizzed the preschoolers gathered at Congregation Ner Tamid on Monday morning.
Bob Cortes, a Republican legislator in Florida, fears he is losing the Hispanic vote that helped get him elected. The culprits: Republican presidential candidates such as Donald Trump who are railing against immigration.
Pope Francis will deliver only four of the 18 addresses he will make during his forthcoming visit to the United States in English and the rest in his native Spanish, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
Some pontiffs have been beatified or canonized, but Pope Francis is receiving a far more dubious honor. He’s being “Obamified.”
Coffee, tea and Christianity. Las Vegas Valley churches take their caffeine consumption seriously.
Pope Francis on Tuesday revolutionized the procedure for Roman Catholics to get marriage annulments, making them faster and simpler and calling on bishops to provide greater help to divorced couples.
It’s a Friday night in Las Vegas and the sounds of hip-hop fill the 5,000-square-foot warehouse near McCarran International Airport. It may seem like any other hot summer night party in the valley, but this event takes place at Family Worship Christian Church
To predict exactly what people can expect from the pope’s first U.S. trip proves difficult because of Pope Francis’ spontaneity.
The Vatican told a Spanish bishop that transsexuals cannot be godparents after he asked for a formal answer on the matter, the cleric in the diocese of Cadiz and Ceuta said.
There will be blood in September — literally, according to the Internet postings of end-times believers.
Pope Francis rocked the Catholic world — again — on Tuesday by announcing that women who have had an abortion are not automatically excommunicated but can seek forgiveness from priests during the church’s upcoming “Year of Mercy.”
In serving students, campus organizations and ministries employ strategies that may be different from those used by faith communities in the community at large. Key to it all, representatives say, is simply being accessible to students in whatever ways students might wish.
They would seem to be unlikely friends. Unlikely allies. Unlikely acquaintances, even.
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