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British Catholics, Pope Francis pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
By SIMON CALDWELL, Catholic News Service
Published September 8, 2022Catholics in the U.K. paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her death Sept. 8 and the end of a reign that lasted more than 70 years.
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Fransalian priest, who served in Atlanta, dies August 18
Published September 18, 2020
Father Martin Griffin, MSFS, died on Aug. 18. A priest of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales his service included time working in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
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Richard III, Catholic king of England, reburied at Leicester Cathedral
By SIMON CALDWELL, Catholic News Service
Published April 2, 2015MANCHESTER, England (CNS)—One of England’s last Catholic kings was reburied three years after his skeleton was discovered in a coffin beneath a parking lot. King Richard III—the last monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty and the last English king to die in battle—was originally buried by Franciscan friars in Leicester, a city in the Midlands, after […]
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Experts, historians explore Shakespeare’s Catholic sympathies
By JONATHAN LUXMOORE, Catholic News Service
Published October 30, 2014STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (CNS)—Inside this town’s recently refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theater, a massed audience, banked on three floors, gazes attentively out over a wide, brightly lit stage. “Necessity will make us all forsworn. Three thousand times within this three years’ space; for every man with his affects is born, not by might master’d, but by special […] Full Story
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Ukrainian churches urge peace as war clouds gather over Crimea
By JONATHAN LUXMOORE, Catholic News Service
Published March 7, 2014OXFORD, England (CNS)—Church leaders in Ukraine appealed for peace in their country’s Crimea peninsula as its government accused Russia of “carrying out an armed invasion.” The pleas came soon after several hundred camouflage-wearing troops without insignia and armed with military-style rifles entered and secured areas of the civilian airport in Crimea’s regional capital of Simerfopol […] Full Story
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Ukrainian churches urge peace as war clouds gather
By JONATHAN LUXMOORE, Catholic News Service
Published March 6, 2014OXFORD, England (CNS)—Church leaders in Ukraine appealed for peace in their country’s Crimea peninsula as its government accused Russia of “carrying out an armed invasion.” The pleas came soon after several hundred camouflage-wearing troops without insignia and armed with military-style rifles entered and secured areas of the civilian airport in Crimea’s regional capital of Simerfopol […] Full Story