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President Thomas Boni Yayi of Benin speaks with reporters on Nov. 20, 2012 at the Vatican.

Benin's president thinks Pope is right about hope in Africa

Nov 20, 2012

Just one year after Pope Benedict XVI visited the African country of Benin, its president believes that it can live... Read more

Msgr. Obiora F. Ike walks in front of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Enugu, Nigeria.

Nigerian Catholics respond to attack with prayer and fasting

Nov 13, 2012

After his parish in southern Nigeria was desecrated on Nov. 4, Monsignor Obiora F. Ike called on his parishioners to... Read more

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The Supreme Court of Texas said in a post on X late Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, that it had “granted a Texas House of Representatives’ emergency motion” and “effectively [halted] the execution of Robert Roberson,” which was scheduled to take place that night.

Texas death row inmate, spared execution, barred from testifying to state lawmakers

Pope Francis addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’ Square for his general audience on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis: The Holy Spirit is ‘essential’ for unity in marriage

U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court will hear case on Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries for minors

Bishop Dominique Rey (left), and Coadjutor Bishop François Touvet of Fréjus-Toulon, France.

French diocese to hold ordinations after two-year halt by Vatican

In an Aug. 2, 2024, interview, Father Marcelo Pérez revealed that a “price” had been put on his life. The priest died Oct. 20, 2024, after being shot by two men after celebrating Mass.

Murdered priest in Mexico remembered as ‘tireless apostle of peace’

The Vatican on Oct. 22, 2024, announced it had accepted the request of Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, OFM, of Bogor, Indonesia (seen here in 2017), to not be made a cardinal at the Dec. 7 consistory as had been previously announced. The bishop’s request “was motivated by his desire to continue growing in priestly life and in service to the Church and the people of God,” the Holy See Press Office said.

Indonesian bishop declines cardinal appointment to ‘grow in priestly life’

Pope Francis meets with other delegates of the Synod on Synodality at a roundtable discussion in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Oct. 17, 2024.

Live updates: The Synod on Synodality debates the Catholic Church’s future

The Human Exploration Rover Challenge team at St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Diocese of Richmond.

Virginia Catholic school among 2 middle schools in world picked for NASA rover challenge

Father Gustavo Gutierrez Merino, OP, who is regarded as the father of liberation theology.

Gustavo Gutiérrez, ‘father of liberation theology,’ dies at 96

St. John Capistrano and St. Bernardine of Siena. Museum of Fine Arts of Granada. Painting, oil on canvas, by Alonso Cano (1653-1657) for an altarpiece of the disappeared Franciscan convent of San Antonio and San Diego, Granada.

St. John of Capistrano: Franciscan priest and missionary who achieved military victory

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