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What is the cross really about? Mark Hart (the Bible Geek) shares a powerful Good Friday message.

"I like to think about what Jesus must have been like," the 33-year-old designer and carver said, looking at the agonized, upturned face of the figure of the fallen Jesus. "There is passion, there is love, there is mercy."

The collection ensures not only that the buildings remain accessible, but that local Christians are able to stay in their homeland.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As extraordinary as the apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, nearly 100 years ago were, the sanctity of the shepherd children did not hinge on their having seen Mary, a cardinal said.

That quote, "mother of all vigils" comes from St. Augustine's Sermon 209, which is pretty old, since the saint died in the year 430.

The man arrested for the 2014 murder of Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP, and the aggravated assault on Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP, will spend the rest of his life in prison. That was the decision of Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Pete Reinstein at a sentencing hearing April 7.

He was calm and soothing, “just like you would imagine Jesus to be.”

For decades, the All Saints Newman Center’s campus ministry at Arizona State University has reached into the throngs of college students and held out the Gospel message, the sacraments and a good dose of social interaction.

"The racial divide in the United States and, sadly, in the Catholic Church in the United States is not something of the past. It is very much something of the present," the bishop said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Continuing initiatives aimed at a reconciliation with the Society of St. Pius X, Pope Francis has made it possible for bishops to ensure the validity of marriages celebrated in the traditionalist communities.