As Pope Francis prepares to visit the Holy Land and meet with Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, learn about what divides the Eastern and Western churches -- and what is being done to bring them back together.

  

  

But will its ruling have an effect on other religious liberty cases?

  

  

The Jesuit Cristo Rey network's work-study model succeeds in getting low-income and minority students ready for college.

  

  

The group was rebuked by the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith after it sanctioned women whose teachings defy those of Church.

  

  

The Capuchin friar saw a need for a small clinic in Oaxaca, but his dream turned into much more.

  

  

Starvation is a growing concern as violence keeps families in the Central African Republic from planting crops.

  

  

The first Cristo Rey school opened its doors to minister to the poor children on the outskirts of society who would have been all too easy to overlook.

  

  

  

-- Pope Francis, joking with priests and seminarians about their need for Mary on May 12.

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