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Amazon priest sees Zoom wakes as way to comfort suffering
When a family friend died in Spain, which was on lockdown because of COVID-19, Spanish Father Luis Miguel Modino celebrated the wake and connected family members using Zoom.
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Virus stopped couple’s dream wedding, but ceremony still ‘special’
When Matthew and Bethany Vogel got engaged in January 2019, they had no way to foresee the virus that would upend events worldwide in spring 2020, including their wedding.
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Accompanying others extends to immigration, says attorney
Immigration "is not political -- or it should not be political. This has nothing to do with party affiliation," according to a Catholic immigration attorney who works in El Paso, Texas.
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Salvadorans overcome massacre with faith
They greet each other like family members who haven't seen one another in a while, a big smile when one of them walks into the room. Felipe Tobar talks about his uncle, quiet and tall, a man "who loved to ...
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To meet a displaced person is to encounter Christ, pope says
The sad reality of people displaced within the borders of their own country, a crisis that has been ignored for far too long, is an opportunity for Christians to encounter Jesus, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Benedict: St. John Paul's life marked by mercy, not moral rigidity
The continuity between St. John Paul II and Pope Francis is rooted in the message of God's divine mercy for all men and women, retired Pope Benedict XVI said in a letter commemorating his predecessor's birth.
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Report: Americans less polarized on faith, politics than generally thought