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Beth Bostwick helps schools care for the minds and bodies of students. 

VATICAN CITY — Greeting visitors in St. Peter's Square after nearly a month of tight restrictions due to the pandemic, Pope Francis said he was happy to see people allowed to gather and be present for Sunday noonday prayer. 

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church's newest blesseds are six "meek disciples of Christ," who showed heroic courage defending the Eucharist from profanation when French troops sacked their Italian monastery in 1799 and scattered the Blessed Sacrament on the floor while searching for any valuables they could carry away, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY — The religious persecution exercised by China and North Korea, restrictions on religious freedom in dozens of countries and the continuing threat of violence at the hands of religious fundamentalists belonging to a variety of faiths all have worsened since 2018, said Aid to the Church in Need, a papal foundation and Catholic charity.

St. Bridget of Ireland Church in Berryville has a beautiful stained-glass window of St. Bridget, and a St. Bridget’s cross in the overhang of the choir loft. There’s also an icon of the saint in the sacristy.   

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