Mexico’s oldest diocese celebrates 500th anniversary

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Mexico’s oldest diocese celebrates 500th anniversary with 500 hours of Eucharistic adoration The Diocese of Tlaxcala, the oldest in Mexico, is commemorating its quincentennial with a 500-hour period of continuous Eucharistic adoration.

Pope Leo XIV sends message to exorcists gathered in Rome

Pope Leo XIV addressed a message to the approximately 300 exorcist priests who gathered in Rome from Sept. 15–20.

In Virginia, a Marian shrine reaches back through 1,000 years of Christian history

The National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Williamsburg, Virginia, is part of a thousand-year history of Marian devotion dating back to rural England.