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Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024.

Vatican’s blessing guidelines: global responses to Fiducia Supplicans a year later

Jan 26, 2025

By Kristina Millare

One year ago, Pope Francis met with participants of the plenary session of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the... Read more

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Rosary beads and tributes are placed on the sculpture of St. John Paul II on March 13, 2025, at the main entrance of Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Pope Francis is being cared for. Today marks the 28th day since Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome on Feb. 14 and also 12 years since Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis.

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Highlands El Encinar School in Madrid.

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Google offices in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York.

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Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz gives a talk during his July 2024 visit to Santiago, Chile.

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Normally busy streets in Manhattan are deserted April 10, 2020, after officials imposed a COVID-19 lockdown.

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Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, S.J., with the official image of the 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome.

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Massacre in Plateau, Nigeria, on Dec. 24, 2023.

Nearly 150 Catholic priests kidnapped across Nigeria in past decade, at least 11 killed

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Ohio Catholic hospital resolves First Amendment dispute over ‘body cavity’ search

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