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Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana at a press conference on the Synod on the Family, Oct. 23, 2015.

Cardinal Turkson: Put your faith before your nationality

Jun 2, 2017

By Adelaide Mena

Vatican experts on human development and social issues challenged Catholics around the world this week to respond with openness and... Read more

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, speaks at the Rimini meeting, Aug. 25, 2014.

Terror recruitment linked to Europe failing its young people

Sep 2, 2014

As reports continue to emerge on Muslims born and raised in Europe being recruited by the Islamic State, the continent... Read more

These two displaced people who fled the Islamic State to Ankawa, in Erbil, are among the more than 1.2 million displaced persons in Iraq.

Vatican official calls for military protection of Iraqi Christians

Aug 13, 2014

The Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations on Saturday urged the international community to provide humanitarian assistance and... Read more

The United Nations flag flying outside its headquarters.

UN may risk a 'deficit of democracy', nuncio says

Jun 3, 2014

The Holy See’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva has no doubt that the body is useful in the... Read more

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Sister Clare Crockett is the subject of the documentary “All or Nothing.”

Cause for beatification of Sister Clare Crockett opened

Delegates at the 2024 Synod on Synodality participate in roundtable meetings on Oct. 10, 2024, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.

4 German bishops praise Rome synod, criticize German Synodal Way

Members of a rescue team search for victims at Klatanlo village in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, on Nov. 4, 2024, after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted overnight.

Volcano destroys Indonesia Catholic convent, killing religious sister

Sister Annella Zervas, OSB, in her casket, after she died at 26 of a debilitating skin disease. August, 1926.

Sister Annella Zervas’ sainthood cause could be opened this month

Heralds of the Gospel founder Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias.

Heralds of the Gospel founder dies at 85 

Pope Francis on Nov. 4, 2024, named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob as archbishop of Milwaukee.

Pope Francis appoints Chicago auxiliary bishop to lead Milwaukee Archdiocese

Pope Francis prays during a Mass of suffrage for deceased cardinals and bishops in St. Peter’s Basilica on Nov. 4, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis offers Mass for over 120 deceased cardinals and bishops

Ben Kresse, a theology teacher at St. Xavier High School, shows a group of students how to uncover a temporary marker on a gravesite in Meadow View Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 21, 2024.

In Louisville, Catholic high schoolers help bury the indigent dead

Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas.

Pope Francis names Archbishop Galbas as new leader of Warsaw Archdiocese

John Kraemer shows off the interior of one of his Lego churches to an interested parishioner at Resurrection of the Lord Parish in Standish, Michigan.

Michigan man builds up the Catholic Church, one Lego at a time, for 25 years

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