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From the time Fr. David Loeffler was born until he turned 12, his Pentecostal “granny” took him, along with her family members and other children she nannied, to her little church four times a week. And each visit was four hours long.

ROME (CNS) — As Christians work and pray for the restoration of full unity among them, they must be willing to learn from one another, even from the smallest of the Christian communities, Pope Francis said.

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation was marked in Israel and Poland.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said remembering the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust is a call for the world today to reflect and commit to not repeating the atrocities of the past.

Freedom to practice the Catholic faith is not guaranteed, even in the modern age, as one priest's life story and a newly-released report show.

LOS ANGELES (CNA) — Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Southern California. Bryant, the father of four, was 41.

She still peppers her Hebrew speech daily with Polish Catholic expressions, and the only prayer — Jewish or Catholic — she remembers by heart is the good-night prayer learned as a child.

In a homily that encompassed the call to holiness, life in the Spirit and the obligation to see in each person the face of Christ, visiting Bishop Robert Deeley of Portland, Maine, struck a chord with those attending the 50th annual Red Mass Jan. 14.

"The film's most powerful characteristics are its ability to humanize the individuals who are on death row and illuminate the discrimination, mental illness, impoverishment and racial bias that commonly leads to a death sentence," a joint statement from the Catholic Mobilizing Network said.

Continuing his talks on the Acts of the Apostles, the pope said even in trial, St. Paul "does not cease to be the guardian of the lives of others and the animator of their hope."