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U.S. President VD Vance meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot.)

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Pope, Vance have unusual Easter tête-à-tête at the Vatican

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U.S. President VD Vance meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot.)

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From left, nuns Alejandra Jaime, 39, Maria Ines Maldonado, 76, Maria Auxiliadora Estrada, 59, and Patricia Marin, 28, store fritters with Christmas figures in clear plastic bags for sale at the Convent of the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills

Dec 18, 2023
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Maria Consuelo Palapa weaves a palm frond in a traditional Mexican design with help from her son Omar, 7, at the Church of the Incarnation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. The parishioner at this Catholic church, where the palms will be sold as a fundraiser and blessed at Palm Sunday services this weekend, said she joined the volunteer workshop “to first help the church, and to teach the child my traditions.” (Credit: Giovanna Dell’Orto/AP.)

Palm weaving workshops join faith, culture for Palm Sunday

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Navy Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Ben Garrett counsels a sailor in his quarters on the USS Bataan on Monday, March 20, 2023 at Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Va. One of the chaplains' roles aboard the ship is help sailors deal with stress Navy life brings. (Credit: John C. Clark/AP.)

U.S. Navy deploys more chaplains for suicide prevention

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Miami faith community strains to help new exiles, migrants

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