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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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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 […] Full Story