WESTWOOD -- "I love near-death experiences," says Mark Watson. "Not that I love them, but the notion of people having an out-of-body experience, that they see things that are happening when they were literally clinically dead or unresponsive, but could see what was happening around them, things that we can't explain. Science goes so far to explain some of these things, but it doesn't. There's a gray area when it stops."
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(CNA) -- The Order of Malta's Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem is facing severe operational constraints and its mobile clinics remain unable to reach Bedouin villages in the West Bank due to movement restrictions and violence, the order's grand master told diplomats Jan. 10.
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VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV gathered cardinals present for the extraordinary consistory this week for an early morning Mass Jan. 8 in St. Peter's Basilica, telling them they're together not to promote "agendas," but to take part in a "discernment" that "comes from the Lord."
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NEWTON -- "Everything is huge here," says Coline Godard. Godard, a sophomore at Institution La Croix Blanche in Lille, France, spent three weeks in the U.S. as part of a foreign exchange program with Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. She was surprised by the larger scale of everything from the school itself, housed inside a grand Tudor Revival estate, to the food portions. She got to try fast food and s'mores during her visit. She doesn't care much for marshmallows, but she loves NCDS sophomore Emma Wulff and her family, with whom she stayed during the exchange.
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(OSV News) -- The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is back for 2026 with a special route that will travel the East Coast from St. Augustine, Florida, to Portland, Maine, ending in Philadelphia, organizers announced Jan. 8.
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