Due to restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, Pope Francis will celebrate the feast of All Souls with a “strictly private” Mass at a Vatican cemetery.
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Former spiritual adviser to Medjugorje visionaries excommunicated
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Prelate celebrates his first Mass as cardinal-designate at historic Maryland church
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