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In this March 29, 2015 pool photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Pope Francis has walked solemnly through St. Peter's Square in a Palm Sunday procession to usher in Holy Week ahead of Easter. Francis clutched a palm frond for the religious service, celebrated outside St. Peter's Basilica. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Holy Week is about humility – there is no other way, Pope Francis says

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

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CHRISTOPHER HARPER: Correcting the facts surrounding Caesar’s demise

By Christopher Harper

An Orthodox church is silhouetted during sunset in the village of Mozoli, 30 miles northwest of the capital, Minsk, Belarus, Monday, March 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Orthodox Church started by the Apostle Paul in book of Acts

By Riley Manning - Associated Press

ANOTHER WAVE: Migrants are being rescued in the harbor of the island of Lampedusa, Italy. With Libya's security rapidly deteriorating, the number of people setting out in smugglers' boats to cross the Mediterranean Sea toward Italy has surged. (Associated Press)

Lampedusa, Italy, becomes symbol of Europe’s migrant crisis as refugees crowd tiny island

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. In a dramatic sea rescue north of Libya, a flotilla of rescue ships saved nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, Italian officials said Wednesday. The rescue vessels, including from Italy's coast guard and navy, and three cargo ships, saved 941 people in seven separate operations that began Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said. The survivors were being ferried to southern Italian ports. The migrants had been aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels. One of the larger boats capsized, and 10 bodies were spotted or plucked from the sea. According to Interior Ministry figures, 7,882 migrants arrived on Italian coasts in the first two months of this year, compared to 5,506 in that period in 2014. The coast guard said the migrants saved in the latest rescues claimed to be Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans, Tunisians or from sub-Saharan Africa. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Islamic State’s continuing threat to Italy

By Sean MacCormac

Bishops and Cardinals attend a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Communion for divorced and remarried? Africa’s bishops have other concerns, cardinal says

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