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A 50-year-old man polluted holy water with urine at a York County Catholic Church earlier this month, according to court records. Jesse John Sokoll, 50, of no fixed address, has been charged with intentional desecration of a venerated object, according to court documents filed by York City police. An affidavit of probable cause written by police gave this account: On April 22, police responded to Saint Patrick Catholic Church at the 200 block of South Beaver Street for a vandalism report that had occurred on April 14 around 2:15 p.m., according to the affidavit. A person told police a man...

Pope Francis dropped an F-bomb during his Sunday prayer at St. Peter's Square “If each one of us does not amass riches only for oneself, but half for the service of others, in this f–k [pause], in this case the providence of God will become visible through this gesture of solidarity,” Francis said to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Italian media reported.

I am often asked when I chose to become Catholic. However, it is more truthful to say that over the course of several years I gradually became Catholic and then decided one day to accept the faith I had already come to embrace. My wife, Callista, is a lifelong Catholic and has been a member of the choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for 15 years. Although I was Southern Baptist, I had attended Mass with Callista every Sunday at the basilica to watch her sing with the choir. I accompanied...

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