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Rome Bishop Baldassare Reina presides at the closing of the diocesan phase of the investigation into the life and virtues of Chiara Corbella Petrillo in Rome on Friday, June 21, 2024.

Who is the Rome Diocese’s new vicar general, future Cardinal Baldassare Reina?

Oct 9, 2024

By Hannah Brockhaus

As he listed the names of the new cardinals, the pope named “His Excellency Monsignor Baldassare Reina, who will be... Read more

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The Vatican has announced that the completed restorations on the soaring baldacchino over the central altar of St. Peter’s Basilica designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini will be unveiled on Oct. 27, 2024.

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Bishop Michael Martin prays with victims of Hurricane Helene while surveying storm damage at Swannanoa, North Carolina, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.

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Pope Francis during the weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square on Oct. 9, 2024.

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Maureen McKinley helps her children through some study exercises in her family's dining room in Phoenix. McKinley and her husband, Matt, home-school their five children and offer the older children a curriculum that includes Latin.

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Cardinal John Henry Newman.

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Rome Bishop Baldassare Reina presides at the closing of the diocesan phase of the investigation into the life and virtues of Chiara Corbella Petrillo in Rome on Friday, June 21, 2024.

Who is the Rome Diocese’s new vicar general, future Cardinal Baldassare Reina?

Cardinals-elect Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, SVD; Archbishop Jaime Spengler, OFM; and Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo answer questions during a Synod on Synodality press briefing on Oct. 8, 2024.

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Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra meets with Pope Francis in Vatican City on Aug. 17, 2018.

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