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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Sunday argued that its long-standing refugee program is a “work of mercy” after Vice President JD Vance criticized the bishops’ positions ...

Indeed, never has the dreary drudgery of digging up dirt and dust been deemed so divine a duty. The provocation for the prelude is the announcement by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on January 23 ...

The virtue of hope holds a divine strength: In his first Saturday Jubilee 2025 audience, Pope Francis reflected on hope through the lens of St. John the Baptist. In a Jan. 23 press conference ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...

The antiquity of iron in the Tamil landscape, dating back to the first quarter of the 4th millennium BCE, was based on samples drawn from archaeological excavations carried out by the Tamil Nadu ...

She is also author of Marriageology: the Art and Science of Staying Together. The quality of mercy is tough to measure, but the quantity of mercy has not been strained in Washington recently.

The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde in an interview late Wednesday defended the recent plea for mercy she made to President Trump that sparked his demand for an apology. “We’re in a particularly ...

Indian Space Research Organisation satellite, CartoSat-2, captured the world's largest religious gathering, Kumbh Mela, from space. The Maha Kumbh, a massive religious event held every 12 years ...

“In the name of God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” she said from the pulpit. Budde urged him to help those fleeing war zones, to have mercy on ...

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