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Pope Francis will arrive in Washington, D.C. for the beginning part of his visit to the United States - his first-ever visit to the U.S.

via CNN An American health care pioneer will receive the Roman Catholic Church’s highest honor this weekend. On Sunday, Mother Marianne Cope — along with another North American, Kateri Tekakwitha — will become a saint, a designation so difficult to achieve that only 10 other Americans have been canonized before her. Saint Marianne Cope, as […]

Via BBC News The late Pope, John Paul II, has been officially beatified at a ceremony at the Vatican in front of hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful. Among those at St Peter’s Square is French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, who says she was cured of Parkinson’s Disease. Her apparently miraculous cure is part of the […]

Nathaniel Lindein, a crack-addled burglar accused of robbing nearly a dozen Bronx churches says he broke into the poor box as revenge for the child sex scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church.

An Italian probe into the Vatican Bank marks the first time Italian authorities have ever blocked an account at the bank, prosecutors told CNN Wednesday.