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To Pope Francis, the 18th-century priest Junipero Serra was one of the United States’ founding fathers, a missionary who brought the Gospel to the New World. To Valentin Lopez, the chairman of the ...

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The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint. We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pilgrims have been pouring into a medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, ...

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We go now to the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska, where the Orthodox Christian tradition remains strong after almost two centuries. This village recently welcomed hundreds of clergy from the Orthodox ...