Pope Leo XIV celebrated Sunday Mass at the Shrine of Santa Maria della Rotonda together with the poor and Caritas workers, ...

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The 33rd President of the US drops two unprecedented bombs on Japan, making a biblical reference, and then hints that nuclear ...

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Kingsley Amis’ views on drink, aired wittily and sometimes tetchily in three small books, are entertaining to read but ...

There is no theological topic that has aroused more heated feelings than the virginity of Jesus’ mother, so out of cowardice ...

When I walked into the Sacro Convento Library in Assisi holding a white cane and asking to handle some of their most precious ...

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