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At the Vatican Basilica, the opening of the Holy Door was first documented on Christmas of 1499, when Pope Alexander VI ordered the Holy ... Christmas Eve, Pope Pius XI opened the Holy Door ...

Since the end of World War II, the Vatican has tried hard to make up for its centuries of attacks on the Jewish people, ...

Later, Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) would give formal expression ... If the liberal Catholic movement had suffered a serious setback because of Pius IX’s 'Syllabus of Errors' of 1864 ...

Since our nation's founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States.

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