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The Vatican said Francis, who was diagnosed with double pneumonia, suffered a breathing crisis and needed blood transfusions.

He created a 300-person Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant choir and orchestra. Then he took a break.

Opening up one's home is certainly not everyone’s favorite thing, but I think we can all agree we love the feeling when someone is hospitable toward us. Feeling invited and welcomed into someone’s ...

O sacred heart of Jesus, mercifully accept the prayer which I now make to you for help in the moment of my death, when at its approach all my senses shall fail me. When, therefore, O kind and ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

Yevstratiy, and other church watchers like Catholic intellectual George Weigel, have accused the Russian Orthodox Church ... led by the apostles who knew Jesus personally. The apostle Andrew ...

A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast ... together in the Spirit of Jesus of Nazareth.” The Ukrainians will argue to those gathered that further Russian advances would expand ...

Archbishop Nelson Pérez, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, and other prelates led prayers during a service Feb. 16 prayer ...

As the war in Ukraine reaches the tragic threshold of three years, OSV News is profiling Catholics who have become quiet ...