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The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration Oct. 11 praised a plan by President Joe Biden to raise the refugee cap to 125,000 for fiscal year 2022.

“He dies, he comes back to life, and he’s a good sport about it,” said poet Angela Alaimo O’Donnell as she introduced her poem, “St. Lazarus.”

Martin Marrin, 62, a longtime social studies teacher at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis, is one of 10 finalists for the National History Teacher of the Year Award presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He and his wife, Nancy, are empty nesters in Robbinsdale.

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His experiences as an altar boy and recovering alcoholic inform creator Mike Flanagan's "Midnight Mass."

The Biden administration's decision to allow Title X family planning funds go to health facilities that perform and promote abortion "is offensive to tens of millions of Americans," said the president of National Right to Life.

Three members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard have hung up their halberds rather than be vaccinated against COVID-19, and three others were temporarily suspended in early October as they were completing the vaccination cycle, the spokesman for the guards told a Swiss newspaper.

The devil's mission is to destroy any peace and harmony in people's lives and relationships, Pope Francis said in a homily at Mass with members of the Vatican police force.