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The pews were packed with friends and family at St. Joseph's Church in upstate New York as Joanne McKeon and Ray Germain stood at the altar on their wedding anniversary, holding hands and smiling at each other, set to renew their wedding vows.

Lying in her hospital bed, Grace Namakula, 39, writhed in pain as she explained how her husband beat and seriously injured her following a domestic dispute.

At vocational discernment gathering of the Neocatechumenal Way in the U.S. this summer, over 10,000 participants were encouraged to realize that they have "something to do so that the church may become the church."

Since April, the Long Beach Convention Center has housed migrant children with nowhere else to go, while authorities searched for adult family members and sponsors in the country.

For the neighbors who came out for a recent street Mass in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, blessings abounded.

Two fully vaccinated Jesuit university presidents who recently tested positive for COVID-19 have spoken out about their experience as an urgent reminder of the need to get vaccinated.

Jesus wants to nourish the souls of those who are spiritually famished from the loneliness and anguish that come from life's difficulties, Pope Francis said.

Even as some figures show arrivals at the border are breaking records, a New York-based immigration think tank said the country's "undocumented population is shrinking"according to census figures.

Michelle Myers Berg turns heads as she walks downtown St. Paul streets.

The Vatican is investigating about a dozen founders of congregations of consecrated or religious life, and the most common allegations involve abuse of power or conscience, financial corruption or problems associated with "affectivity," said a top official.