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With their spiritual enthusiasm and vitality, [migrants] can help revitalize ecclesial communities that have become rigid and ...

Silence falls on the beach in the former fishing village of Estepona as the sun sets over Spain’s southern coast.

Pride Month may be over, but advocacy continues year round. This sentiment holds truth for a number of LGBTQ friendly ...

CONCHO, AZ (AP) - The village of Concho in the Arizona high desert is home to about 50 people — barely a dot in a sprawling, dusty landscape speckled with clumps of grass, scrub oak and juniper.

Born the sixth of eight children, Yep was a contemplative young boy who would climb trees with his lunch and books, deep in ...

Lawrence Córdova touched the wooden retablo shaped into a cross, a bulto of Jesus Christ affixed to it, before explaining the surrounding motifs from the crucifixion — a whip, a rooster that crowed ...

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa transforms a Spanish nun, mystic, and writer, into one of the most famous emblems of the ...

Up on the high plains of the Atacama Desert, Chile's largest religious festival brings tens of thousands of worshippers together for a Catholic celebration with a twist.

Rhode Islanders are celebrating Pope Leo XIV's declaration that the healing of a baby born in their state back in 2007 was ...

Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year. The ...