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A view of the November 2024 Mountain Fire taken from Padre Serra Parish in Ventura County, California.

California parish serves as refuge amid damaging wildfire

Pope Francis greets new seminarians from the North American College present in St. Peter’s Square, encouraging them to live their vocations with joy “because true prayer gives us joy.”

Knights of Columbus surpasses $100 million in support for seminarians, religious vocations

St. Joseph Church in the west-central region of Bukit Timah in Singapore.

Singapore priest stabbed while celebrating Mass

The Confiteor at a Traditional Latin Mass.

Vatican prohibits Traditional Latin Mass in Bishop Strickland’s former cathedral

Father Roberto Pasolini, who was appointed Nov. 9, 2024, as the new preacher of the Papal Household, earned a doctorate in biblical theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and has been a professor of biblical languages ​​and sacred Scripture at the Laurentianum Interprovincial Theological Institute of the Capuchins in Milan and Venice.

Pope Francis appoints new preacher to the Papal Household to succeed Cardinal Cantalamessa

An interior view of Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California.

Diocese of Oakland says it will pay up to $200 million for hundreds of abuse claims

Inside the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Holy Rosary in Pompeii, Italy.

Pope on 150th anniversary of Our Lady of Pompeii: ‘Rediscover the beauty of the rosary’

Pope Francis meets with the delegations of the Diocese of Aosta, Italy, and the Congregation of the Canons of Great Saint Bernard on Nov. 11, 2024, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican.

Pope Francis marks first millennium since birth of St. Bernard, patron of mountaineers

President Donald J. Trump is joined by legislators and Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil-Kurdistan, Iraq, left, as he signs H.R. 390, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018 on Dec. 11, 2018, in the Oval Office of the White House.

Chaldean archbishop voices hope for peace under new U.S. administration

Admiral Rachel Levine, Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for health, announces new transgender guidelines.

Trump could restrict transgender surgeries for kids in second term, policy analysts say

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