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Analysis: As the year ends, where do things stand with the Vatican ‘trial of the century’?

Dec 19, 2022

By Andrea Gagliarducci

The latest round of hearings at the Vatican’s historic finance trial has revealed several twists that profoundly changed proceedings —... Read more

A hearing in the Vatican finance trial on May 20, 2022.

Analysis: Vatican ‘trial of the century’ prepares for hearing of ‘super-witness’

Oct 25, 2022

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Monsignor Alberto Perlasca will testify at the Vatican tribunal on Nov. 23, 24, and 25 in what is expected to... 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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