To Pope Francis, the 18th-century priest Junipero Serra was one of the United States’ founding fathers, a missionary who brought the Gospel to the New World. To Valentin Lopez, the chairman of the ...

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The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint. We ...

‘He wanted to help people to have more faith, to understand that there is an afterlife, that we are [pilgrims] in this world,’ the soon-to-be saint’s mother says.

We go now to the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska, where the Orthodox Christian tradition remains strong after almost two centuries. This village recently welcomed hundreds of clergy from the Orthodox ...