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Renaissance painter Tintoretto's "The Last Supper" to adorn Holy See's official Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015.

At Expo 2015, Vatican pavilion offers space for learning, relaxation

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MILAN - The Holy See's official pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015, the newest edition of the every-five-years world's fair, will be a public space of relaxation and learning.

Canadian tourists Tave Teloye and his children Alan and Juliet prepare lentil packets for earthquake victims May 1 at Assumption Catholic Church in Lalitpur, Nepal.

Week after quake, trucks of aid begin reaching remote areas of Nepal

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KATHMANDU, Nepal - Truckloads of relief material organized by church charities began moving across Nepal a week after the Himalayan nation was rocked by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake April 25.

Columban Father Shay Cullen, founder and president of the PREDA Foundation, and Marlyn Capio-Richter, paralegal officer and social worker with the foundation and a survivor of sex trafficking, pose for a photo April 20 in Washington. The foundation works with children and young women rescued from human trafficking situations.

Columban priest targets child traffickers in Philippine ministry

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WASHINGTON - Arriving in the Philippines from Ireland in 1969 as a young missionary priest, Columban Father Shay Cullen hardly expected he'd end up fighting a burgeoning sex industry.

A statue of Blessed Junipero Serra is seen in 2012 outside Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Pope Francis has announced that the friar will be canonized this year.

Vatican pushes ahead with sainthood for Junipero Serra

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Despite growing resistance from some Native Americans and U.S. Catholics, the Vatican on May 2 will host an event to celebrate the life of Junípero Serra, the Spanish missionary priest whom Pope Francis plans to canonize during his upcoming American tour.

Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical will stress ethics about the state of the environment.

Honduran cardinal gives insider's view on Pope, upcoming events

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WASHINGTON - Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, offered teasing bits of insider information about Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical on the environment, on what he might say in the United States in the fall, and on what it was like to be in the conclave that elected Francis.

Bishop Paul Simick of Nepal visits 4-year-old Catholic Sujina Ghale and her mother, Chaju Ghale, in Banyatar, Nepal, April 30. Sujina was presumed dead and was kept among dead bodies for cremation after she was pulled out of the debris of the house following the April 25 earthquake.

Amid Nepal’s shattered shrines and temples, a religious fatalism sets in

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KATHMANDU, Nepal - When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake roared through this Himalayan nation April 25, leaving an estimated 5,500 dead and more than 11,000 injured, shrines and temples were sent crashing to the ground, many of them centuries old and irreplaceable cultural treasures.

Alex Thier, assistant to the administrator for policy, planning, and learning for US Agency for International Development, addresses a forum on ending extreme poverty at The Catholic University of America in Washington April 28.

Poverty advocates see the day when poverty is no more

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WASHINGTON - With extreme poverty having been cut in half over the last generation — and the Millennium Development Goals target of poverty halving having been achieved five years ahead of the 2015 deadline — veterans of the global war on poverty believe it is possible that extreme poverty can be wiped out in the next 15 years.

Belgian Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels is pictured in a March 15 photo.

Ruling against Belgian archbishop could spur claims for damages

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OXFORD, England - A Belgian bishop said the president of the bishops' conference urged Catholics to respect a court judgment against him for failing to act on allegations of abuse.

Supporters for same-sex marriage stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington April 28.The high court began hearing arguments in cases involving four states that bar same-sex marriage.

U.S. high court considers place of same-sex marriage in states that bar it

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WASHINGTON - The questions raised by U.S. Supreme Court justices as they considered April 28 whether they should rule that same-sex marriage should be made legal nationwide covered a gamut of rights concerns — religious, equal protection, states' ability to enact their own laws.

Prabin Shresta, a member of a Salesian relief team called Nepal Don Bosco Society, provides a snack to earthquake survivors April 26. Inclement weather and logistical pressures have slowed down relief for Nepal earthquake victims.

Pope prays for Nepal quake victims, sends donation, urges solidarity

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VATICAN CITY - Santosh Kumar Magar said he was attending the ordination of a new priest in Okhaldhunga, a remote part of eastern Nepal, when the devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit April 25.

Christy Lewis and a neighborhood youth sweep broken glass and debris outside a looted store in West Baltimore April 28. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to address the violence that erupted in respo nse to the unexplained death of a 25-year-old black man while in police custody.

Catholics join efforts to heal, clean up, move forward in Baltimore

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BALTIMORE - As the city cleaned up after a night of riots, looting and fires following the funeral of Freddie Gray, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori said the Church's place is to pray, be a voice for peace and participate in a wider community dialogue to solve the systemic issues that led to the unrest.

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