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Revellers gather for the 11:11 Fat Thursday (Weiberfastnacht) launch of the city's carnival celebrations on Feb. 27, 2025, in Cologne, Germany.

German archdiocese criticizes carnival float associating Jesus with sex abuse crisis

Feb 28, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Here are some of the major stories of the Catholic Church around the world that you might have missed this... Read more

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St. Stanislaus of Krakow.

Killed during Mass, St. Stanislaus of Krakow became a beloved patron of the Polish people

Kansas Capitol in Topeka.

Veto override: Kansas law will guard adoptive parents’ religious liberty

Father Aaron Nord, pastor of St. Stephen Protomartyr Church, carries the Eucharist through St. Louis on the way to his parish.

Catholics can gain an indulgence by participating in 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

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Federal court strikes down law forcing pro-life ministries to promote abortion

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Catholic Relief Services, bishops urge House to reinstate some international aid funds

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York.

‘Bring Jesus up!’: Sean Duffy rallies merchant marines over controversial painting move

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski distributes food to Ukrainians on a recent humanitarian trip to the war-torn country.

Cardinal Krajewski in Ukraine: ‘People are hungry, living in poverty in the war zone’

Pope Francis at the Jubilee of the Sick in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, April 6, 2025, wearing nasal cannulas for supplemental oxygen as he continues recovering from bilateral pneumonia.

Pope Francis appears in public for second time during his convalescence

St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, New York.

Vatican grants 14 New York churches delay on mergers amid challenges to bishop’s plan

Mark and Kathleen Rosing from Kentucky attended the first Deaf Eucharisitc Congress held at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, April 4–6, 2025.

Deaf Eucharistic Congress attendees: ‘The Deaf lack what many Catholics take for granted’

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