Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

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Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales is listed, under his state title, as a speaker at the fourth annual Conservative ...

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There’s baseball, and there is "American Catholic inside baseball." Whatever the Catholic faithful in Africa think of Cubs-White Sox ... funerals and that Stations of the Cross on Good Fridays ...

Using smoke to communicate to the public whether a new pope has been elected is somewhat a recent tradition for the Catholic Church ... of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative ...

CHICLAYO, PERU — In this northern coastal city between Lima and the Ecuador border ... regardless — white for a new pope, black otherwise. Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church shut the ...

The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers, priests made the sign of the cross and nuns wept as the crowd shouted “Viva il papa!” after the white smoke wafted into the late afternoon sky at ...

Pierce is a professor emerita of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross. The 88-year-old pontiff ... I'm a specialist in Catholic liturgical history. In earlier centuries, papal ...

waiting for black or white smoke to fill the sky. Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21. He was 88 years old. Following Francis' funeral, the Catholic Church's most senior officials will meet to ...

During the service at Holy Cross Catholic Church, a cross bearer moved from station to station. The community was invited to pray alongside him. “This Stations of the Cross is a little bit ...