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What do you get when you mix eight children, two parents and a 2,300-mile journey in a 10-passenger van? The Hanning family of Mesa is about to find out.

The family is the beginning and the foundation of the kind of global culture that will save humanity from many attacks, destruction and "ideological colonization that so threatens the world," the pope said during his final weekly audience before his 10th apostolic journey that includes attendance at the World Meeting of Families.

A nonprofit healing ministry that provides resources to help survivors of abuse and trauma is fairly new to the Diocese of Phoenix and hosting a benefit event to offset costs for retreats that are, by design, small in number.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis' 10th foreign trip will be the longest of his pontificate and, with stops in Cuba, three U.S. cities...

A St. Vincent de Paul dining room that nearly functions like a restaurant now offers makeshift sleeping quarters too.

Fifteen men are continuing their journey toward a more intimate life within the Church.

Images of them crowding into boats and walking along roadways and railways throughout Europe have poured across media channels. Soon, some of them will be headed to Phoenix.

The meticulously renovated building is located on the same campus as the U.S. embassies to Italy and to U.N. agencies in Rome, which initially led some people to ask if it meant the U.S. government was downgrading its mission to the Vatican.

Cardinals coming from Europe, Asia, South America and Africa compiled their essays and personal pastoral reflections in a new book as well as urge extreme caution in considering any plan to readmit to Communion Catholics who have divorced and remarried civilly without having received an annulment.

For those who live on the streets, a visit to the doctor might be necessary, but it’s no longer out of reach.