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Bathroom humor reaches new heights -- make that depths -- in "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank" (Paramount), an animated martial-arts spoof with a most unlikely provenance.

Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada "begin and end" with asking forgiveness.

The Jesuits at the Vatican Observatory were wowed like most people by the beauty of the photos from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, but the director said they also are excited by the scientific information the telescope will reveal.

Here we are, in the thick of summer, this deep and gentle place.

At 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, 1903, more than 4,000 fans gathered at the Lexington Park baseball stadium (at Fuller and Dunlap) to see the St. Paul Saints take on the Minneapolis Millers. Some said it was the largest crowd that had ever gathered for a baseball game in the Midwest, and they were particularly festive with St. Paul fans in white ribbons and Minneapolis fans in red. The game did not disappoint.

As rector of the Baltimore Basilica for the last five years, Father James Boric has been a whirlwind of ministry.

Pope Francis said he plans to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in September at an interreligious meeting in Kazakhstan.

Ten days after saying he would name two women to the group that helps him choose bishops, Pope Francis appointed three women to the office.