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Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

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The Los Angeles Innocence Project said a new year-long investigation uncovered evidence and witness statements that undermine ...

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Six Archie Williams High School students who were victims in a quadruple fatal crash in Marin County were identified by ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...

Days after a deadly shooting, Florida State University students who also survived a deadly mass shooting in Parkland from ...