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When American Catholic politics split the Church

Oct 13, 2016

By Kevin J. Jones

For history professor Christopher Shannon, Catholics in American politics have a long history, yet this legacy is overshadowed by a... Read more

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Catholics remember sorrow of JFK assassination

Nov 22, 2013

By Kevin J. Jones

The 50th anniversary of U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has prompted many Catholics to remember the first Catholic president’s... Read more

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Religious sisters of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, sing as the process with the body of their late foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, on May 29, 2023, at their abbey near Gower, Missouri. The sisters exhumed the nun's body on May 18 and discovered that it was apparently intact, four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin.

Sister Wilhelmina’s body placed in glass case after solemn rosary procession

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Father Emil Kapaun celebrating Mass using the hood of a jeep as his altar, Oct. 7, 1950. Public domain.

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Religious sisters of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, sing as the process with the body of their late foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, on May 29, 2023, at their abbey near Gower, Missouri. The sisters exhumed the nun's body on May 18 and discovered that it was apparently intact, four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin.

Sister Wilhelmina’s body placed in glass case after solemn rosary procession

The Vatican has announced that Bishop George Leo Thomas will be the first metropolitan archbishop of Las Vegas.

Pope Francis elevates Las Vegas to a metropolitan archdiocese