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Annunciation school shooting investigated by FBI as ‘hate crime targeting Catholics’
Friday, August 29, 2025
Minnesota school shooting came after bishops’ pleas for security went unanswered
Friday, August 29, 2025
Shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school: LIVE UPDATES
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Pope Leo publishes his first book
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Three-quarters of a million celebrate the Holy Family in Egypt
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Salvadoran illegal immigrant surrenders and faces deportation – to Uganda
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Abortion in the U.S.: Most people still support it
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Where Catholicism is growing in the US
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Cardinal Burke has a private audience with Leo XIV
Monday, August 25, 2025
Pope Leo reaches out to Ukraine’s Zelensky on Independence Day
Monday, August 25, 2025
Pope Leo calls for prayer and fasting today for peace in Ukraine and the Holy Land
Friday, August 22, 2025
U.S. Commission on International Freedom: Nigeria is deadliest country for Christians
Friday, August 22, 2025
Pope to have “flatmates” at the Apostolic Palace
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Vatican prepares for Pope Leo’s landmark Lebanon visit
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Former Vatican chef opens NYC restaurant
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
In Afghanistan, the Taliban targets women and religious minorities
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Taxpayers still funding Planned Parenthood in pro-life states
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
French archbishop rescinds sex-abuser appointment
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
President Trump vows to ‘save’ Chinese Catholic dissident Jimmy Lai
Monday, August 18, 2025
U.S. Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop: Trump-Putin Alaska summit fails to advance peace, justice
Monday, August 18, 2025
The sharp decline of Catholicism in the U.S.
Friday, August 15, 2025
Little Sisters of the Poor back in court over contraceptives
Friday, August 15, 2025
‘Points’ system proposed in New Orleans as way of settling sexual abuse claims
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Vatican updates its financial procurement procedures
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince denounces the ‘collapse of humanity’ in Haitian society
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Russia kidnaps Ukrainian kids then offers them for adoption
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Brooklyn Bishop slams 6-figure payouts after Vatican found no abuse
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Leo XIV prays that world leaders accept their role in promoting peace
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Cardinal Koch describes ‘desirable’ direction for Pope Leo on Latin Mass
Monday, August 11, 2025
Mel Gibson’s 2-part ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ to be released starting Holy Week 2027
Monday, August 11, 2025
A Catholic crisis in . . . Finland: Not enough churches
Friday, August 8, 2025
Christian, conservative groups optimistic Trump may rein in ‘debanking’
Friday, August 8, 2025
Pope Leo is the most popular global newsmaker among Americans
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Pope on Hiroshima anniversary: Let justice replace a false sense of security
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Pope Leo to youth: Seek real encounters
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
USCCB’s Broglio: Peace requires conversion of hearts and elimination of nukes
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Pope Leo announces dates for 2027 World Youth Day, Seoul
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Chief’s kicker Harrison Butker joins Trump’s relaunch of Presidential Fitness Test
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Pope at Youth Mass: The Lord is gently knocking at the window of your soul
Monday, August 4, 2025
Vatican farm for use as a field of solar and becomes the world’s first carbon-neutral state
Monday, August 4, 2025
St. John Henry Newman to become Doctor of the Church
Friday, August 1, 2025
Clerical junket to Japan
Friday, August 1, 2025
Card. Pell ordered an investigation into a ‘potentially illegal’ Vatican banking system
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Bishop Barron honored with ‘Pieper Prize’ amid praise and protests
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Leo XIV: May the blood of Congo’s ‘martyrs’ become seed of peace
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Vatican communication office urges 2-state solution as France backs Palestinian statehood
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
ISIS-backed terrorists in Congo kill 34 Catholics
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
USCCB invites Catholics to pray for an end to taxpayer-funded abortion
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Over 2-dozen Planned Parenthood facilities shut down amid federal funding losses
Monday, July 28, 2025
Vatican court dismisses financial auditor’s appeal in wrongful termination case
Monday, July 28, 2025
