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Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Twenty years after the movie “The Passion of the Christ” and ten years after the movie “Son of God,” “Jesus” is appearing on the big screen again. This weekend “The Chosen: The Last Supper” opens in ...