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"Home Improvement" star Tim Allen clarified a social media post he shared earlier this week after followers critiqued his ...

Comedian Tim Allen announced he s started reading the New Testament as part of his journey of reading through the Bible and ...

In this column we will consider Paul’s inward focus, the way in which he sees himself, through his suffering, as participating in salvation, especially the Passion, death, and resurrection of ...

The interregnum and election of a new pope are governed by the rules established in the 1996 apostolic constitution “Universi Dominici Gregis” of John Paul II ... verify his death in the ...

VATICAN CITY — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual ... behind the frescoed walls of the Sistine Chapel. St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 ...