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Photo Gallery: Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion welcome more than 1,500 on Easter journey of faith

Photo Gallery: St. Matthew's Cathedral Mass welcoming Cardinal McElroy

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Photo Gallery: Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion welcome more than 1,500 on Easter journey of faith

Photo Gallery: St. Matthew's Cathedral Mass welcoming Cardinal McElroy

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CRS urges US restore ‘life-saving and life-giving assistance’ after Rubio review

Kansas archbishop sues Satanists over alleged theft of Eucharist for ‘black mass’

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