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The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary ...

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The congregants of St. Edward in Palm Beach packed the church on March 1 to celebrate its recent designation as a minor ...

As worshipers entered the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast Washington for the noon ...

and the Diocese of Palm Beach heard back in November that the Vatican wanted one change to the church: the chair in which the priest sits in the sanctuary needed to be more befitting of a basilica.

St. Edward's sanctuary holds 762 people ... which "reminds us of our connection to the Vatican and let us be mindful that this is a place for pilgrimage," Pothier said. "What a joyous occasion ...