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Pope Francis meets with members of the Filipino community at the Vatican's Consistory Hall on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.

Pope Francis to Filipino community in Spain: The Church ‘is a warm and welcoming home’

Dec 16, 2024

By Kristina Millare

“It is a great joy for me to welcome you to the house of St. Peter, to the home of... Read more

Filipino newlyweds dance in the street during a reception in Baleno town, Masbate island province in the central Philippines, April 15, 2007.

Filipino bishops urge nation to ‘take a little more time’ before legalizing civil divorce

Jul 12, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The Philippines is the only nation in the world, other than the Vatican, where divorce is still outlawed.  Read more

Attendees at a Mass for the feast of the Santo Niño de Cebú at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 16, 2022.

Filipino community in Los Angeles celebrates 500 years of the Santo Niño de Cebú

Jan 17, 2022

By CNA Staff

Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles said Mass Sunday in honor of the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines, celebrating... Read more

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A student workshop at The College of St. Joseph the Worker.

West Virginia awards Catholic ‘trade college’ $5 million grant for expansion

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Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021.

Judge says Wisconsin trial against McCarrick will remain suspended until his death

The entry of the cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29, 2024, marks the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossed the threshold of the basilica carrying the jubilee cross accompanied by Archbishop Moussa Hage, Maronite archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land (on his right), and Archbishop Youssef Matta, Greek Catholic (Melkite) archbishop of Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, and Galilee (on his left).

PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa opens 2025 Jubilee Year in Holy Land

“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging.

Relatives of Belgian King Baudouin: ‘His whole life was a witness to the living Christ’

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California.

UPDATE: Oakland Diocese denies it used diocesan fund to hide money from abuse victims

Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year. 

Louisiana priest Lawrence Hecker dies in prison after life sentence over rape of teenager

Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024.

Pope Francis remembers Jimmy Carter’s ‘firm commitment’ to peace, reconciliation

Blessing of a plane at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport aircraft blessing: New chaplain continues 77-year Irish Catholic custom

Catholic Land Movement co-founders Andrew Ewell (top left) and Michael Guidice (top right), pictured here on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica.

In Vatican meetings, Catholic Land Movement proclaims faith, family, and farming

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