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Leonardo Zangani was born and raised in La Spezia and still sports his Italian accent proudly. Now he's using his knowledge of his home country to help Michael Reagan establish the (President Ronald) Reagan Legacy Foundation in Italy.   Zangani and the son of the late president are "very good friends," Zangani said enthusiastically from his...

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Pope Francis on Monday officially announced that he will visit the U.S. in September 2015, including a visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.   "I wish to confirm, if God wills it, that in September of 2015 I will go to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families," he announced at Vatican City's Synod Hall Nov. 17...

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by Beth J. Harpaz   Pope Francis will visit three U.S. cities, Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia, Sept. 23-27. For travelers with an interest in sacred places, here are some of the top Catholic heritage sites — including several on the pope's itinerary — in those cities.   Washington, D.C. St. Matthew's Cathedral, 1725 Rhod...

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Half a million pilgrims in St. Peter's Square; some 300,000 in the streets adjacent to the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII – these are some of the details released by the Vatican City press, indicating that the measure of a mass phenomenon is resistant to any recession and that the charisma of Pope Francis is leading to an unp...

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By Nancy Wiechec   Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to attend the World Meeting of Families in the U.S. next year, even though the Philadelphia Archdiocese still has not received official confirmation from the Vatican.   Archbishop Chaput made the announcement July 24 before givin...

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by Dan Stamm   The Pope himself said he is likely coming to the City of Brotherly Love. NBC News correspondent Anne Thompson told the "Today" show Thursday that she spoke to Pope Francis during his recent flight to South Korea. Thompson said she asked His Holiness in Italian if he would be attending the World Meeting of Families in Phi...

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Dove una volta, prima che il sisma del 1980 la distruggesse, sorgeva la chiesa arcipretale che conservava un affresco del 1713 di Cacciapoti, raffigurante la gloria di San Giorgio Martire, patrono della città di Airola, da oggi si staglia al centro di quella che una volta fu la piazza centrale una statua in bronzo del cavaliere santo che trafigge i...

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Vatican sources say the pope intends to visit Philadelphia, September 2015 during the Catholic church's World Meeting of Families, an international gathering that takes place every three years.   When Philadelphia was first announced as the site, Pope Benedict XVI he said he planned to attend. Speculation has been building as to if Francis w...

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Pope Francis started his big American trip with a little Italian style. After the Pontiff landed at Joint Base Andrews and was greeted by President Obama, he slipped into the backseat of a Fiat 500L sporting the Vatican's SCV 1 license plates, for Stato della Città del Vaticano, or State of Vatican City.   It was not immediately clear i...

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by Mario Angotta   Michele Napoletano, the Brooklyn-born mayor of Airola in the Province of Benevento, last week inaugurated a statue of St. George the Martyr, patron of his town, which was funded by Italian-Americans living in New York.   The mayor says that the outpouring of camaraderie and Italian pride from Italian-Americans who...

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