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Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica, where Bernini's gorgeous bronze monument to the Chair of Peter acts as a massive bronze reliquary for the historic wooden chair.

Why the Church has celebrated the Chair of St. Peter feast for 1,600 years

Feb 22, 2025

By Courtney Mares

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that... Read more

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Participants in the three-day planned peaceful protests in Nigeria’s Diocese of Auchi from March 25–27, 2025, emphasized the need for improved security and called for an end to abductions targeting the clergy that have resulted in deaths of some of the abductees.

3-day peaceful protests in Nigerian diocese call for end to abductions, killings

More than 60 men died after a mosque collapsed in Sagaing Township aftera 7.7-magmitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025.

Catholics race against time and obstacles to help earthquake victims in Myanmar

U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court hears arguments on state defunding of Planned Parenthood

Polonia Castellanos, founder of the Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers.

Report: Attacks on Catholics increasingly common and tolerated in Europe and Latin America

Vice President JD Vance speaks at a film-screening event April 1, 2025, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

JD Vance speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ screening in Washington, DC

Asylum seekers wait for their CBP One appointments with U.S. authorities before crossing through El Chaparral port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Jan. 20, 2025.

Catholic, evangelical leaders: ‘Suffering’ of mass deportation affects all Christians

Participants speak at the conference “Jews and Catholics on Ethics: A Light to the Nations” at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome on April 1, 2025.

At Vatican conference, Catholic and Jewish scholars discuss faith as foundation for ethics

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of the Archdiocese of Westminster.

UK bishops’ conference president speaks out against ‘deeply flawed’ assisted suicide bill

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Pope Francis: ‘God does not pass by without looking for those who are lost’

Reconstruction of the face of St. Teresa of Ávila as she would have appeared at approximately age 50.

What St. Teresa of Ávila would have looked like

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