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Colorado retreat, trail made famous by pope during WYD ’93 gets makeover

Situated on the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and just south of the town of Estes Park -- the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park -- Camp St. Malo is home to a picturesque 1930s-era Chapel on the Rock.

Cause for beatification of British missionary in Zimbabwe opens Sept. 5

The Vatican has allowed the bishops of Zimbabwe to open the sainthood cause of a British missionary murdered after he refused to abandon his ministry to people with Hansen's disease during the country's civil war.

Cupich: ‘Never forget’ policies that led to Holocaust began with words

The "calculated stages" the Nazis carried out that ultimately resulted in the Holocaust began with bigoted language against minorities that the majority soon came to accept as credible, said Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago.

Christians, Muslims pray at ruins of Philippine town’s church, mosques

Christians and Muslims prayed in the ruins of a church and a mosque in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, which was devastated by a five-month siege in 2017.

Philippine bishop appeals for help for hundreds of earthquake victims

UPDATED - The earthquakes, of magnitudes 5.4 and 6.4, killed at least eight people, injured 63. One person was reported missing.

Pope calls for quick action to prevent further migrant deaths

Days after rescue workers recovered the bodies of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis urged the international community to "act quickly" to prevent future tragedies.

Beloved. Finding God in your life

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Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing woman

The Vatican press office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, a young Italian woman who has been missing for more than 30 years.

Rome police chaplain recalls slain officer’s life of service

The murder of 35-year-old officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome's Prati district July 26 and the subsequent arrest of two young American men -- Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18 -- sent shockwaves around the country.

Carlson: Release of abuse allegations ‘painful,’ but ‘right thing to do’

As the Archdiocese of St. Louis released a list of names of archdiocesan clergy with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor July 26, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson acknowledged that seeing the names "will be painful" and publishing them "will not change the past."