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Spiritual life requires a keen awareness of God in the present moment

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To fix the pension deficit, the Vatican may first need to face its trust deficit

“When you contribute to pension management, as we pay with our contributions, the accounts should be available to everyone,” an association of Vatican employees said.

Nov 24
John L. Allen Jr.

Spiritual life requires a keen awareness of God in the present moment

Nov 24
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby

News Analysis

Only in Italy: Why the Vatican owes Lucifer a debt

Nov 23
John L. Allen Jr.

Pope to push Mediterranean agenda in visit to Corsica

Nov 23
Elise Ann Allen

Relics of St. Francis Xavier. (Credit: Government of Goa.)

Relics of St. Francis Xavier shown in Goa, India

Nov 23
Nirmala Carvalho

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro votes in the run-off presidential election as he runs for another term in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2022. (Credit: Bruna Prado, Pool via AP.)

Priest indicted along with Bolsonaro and military officers for conspiracy in Brazil

Nov 22
Eduardo Campos Lima

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro votes in the run-off presidential election as he runs for another term in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2022. (Credit: Bruna Prado, Pool via AP.)

Priest indicted along with Bolsonaro and military officers for conspiracy in Brazil

Nov 22
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope to push Mediterranean agenda in visit to Corsica

Nov 23
Elise Ann Allen

Relics of St. Francis Xavier. (Credit: Government of Goa.)

Relics of St. Francis Xavier shown in Goa, India

Nov 23
Nirmala Carvalho

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro votes in the run-off presidential election as he runs for another term in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2022. (Credit: Bruna Prado, Pool via AP.)

Priest indicted along with Bolsonaro and military officers for conspiracy in Brazil

Nov 22
Eduardo Campos Lima

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro votes in the run-off presidential election as he runs for another term in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2022. (Credit: Bruna Prado, Pool via AP.)

Priest indicted along with Bolsonaro and military officers for conspiracy in Brazil

Nov 22
Eduardo Campos Lima

Priest indicted along with Bolsonaro and military officers for conspiracy in Brazil

Nov 22
Eduardo Campos Lima

U.S. Bishops advocate against nondiscrimination language in HHS proposal

Nov 21
John Lavenburg

‘Techie teen’, mountaineer to get halos during jubilee year

Nov 20
Elise Ann Allen

Pope and Ukrainian Major Archbishop mark 1000 days of Russian invasion

Nov 20
Crux Staff

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Members of immigration advocacy groups demand the City Council enact an ordinance making Los Angeles a sanctuary city outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Credit: Damian Dovarganes/AP.)

Amid uncertainty, Iowa bishops ensure advocacy and solidarity with local migrant community

Nov 22
John Lavenburg

A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, April 25, 2023. (Credit: Marwan Ali/AP.)

Bishops worry there is ‘no chance for peace’ in Sudan as dialogue stalls

Nov 22
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris makes a statement outside Government Buildings ahead of the Dail being formally dissolved for the General Election scheduled for next Nov. 29, in Dublin Friday Nov. 8, 2024. (Credit: Gareth Chaney/PA Wire/PA via AP.)

Irish bishops call for voters to remember life issues ahead of elections

Nov 21
Charles Collins

Dave West, left, and his brother Larry West, both of Fort Worth, Texas, demonstrate outside the hotel where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are meeting in Dallas on June 14. 2002. (Credit: Charlie Riedel/AP.)

Survivors and safeguarding experts call on Vatican to remove all abusers

Nov 20
Charles Collins

Charred homes sit in piles of ash in Mwe Tone village of Pale township in the Sagaing region, Myanmar, Feb. 1, 2022. (Credit: AP Photo.)

Myanmar church can be helped with Synodality, Japanese cardinal-elect says

Nov 20
Nirmala Carvalho

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher arrives at the Catholic University of Central Africa as Cameroon (Credit: Ngala Killian Chimtom.)

Vatican diplomat marks anniversary of framework agreement in Cameroon

Nov 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

(Credit: Pixabay.)

Christian groups in UK call on banks to stop supporting fossil fuels

Nov 19
Charles Collins

Holocaust survivor rebukes Pope over calling Gaza a ‘genocide’

Nov 19
Crux Staff

A case study in how the Vatican’s abuse reform efforts have failed

Nov 18
Elise Ann Allen

Catholic bishops in Gabon call referendum ‘a step toward democratic restoration’

Nov 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Bolivian bishops call for dialogue amid political crisis, but few people listen

Nov 18
Eduardo Campos Lima

Archbishop in India marks World Day of the Poor

Nov 18
Nirmala Carvalho

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Members of immigration advocacy groups demand the City Council enact an ordinance making Los Angeles a sanctuary city outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Credit: Damian Dovarganes/AP.)

Amid uncertainty, Iowa bishops ensure advocacy and solidarity with local migrant community

Nov 22
John Lavenburg

A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, April 25, 2023. (Credit: Marwan Ali/AP.)

Bishops worry there is ‘no chance for peace’ in Sudan as dialogue stalls

Nov 22
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris makes a statement outside Government Buildings ahead of the Dail being formally dissolved for the General Election scheduled for next Nov. 29, in Dublin Friday Nov. 8, 2024. (Credit: Gareth Chaney/PA Wire/PA via AP.)

Irish bishops call for voters to remember life issues ahead of elections

Nov 21
Charles Collins

Dave West, left, and his brother Larry West, both of Fort Worth, Texas, demonstrate outside the hotel where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are meeting in Dallas on June 14. 2002. (Credit: Charlie Riedel/AP.)

Survivors and safeguarding experts call on Vatican to remove all abusers

Nov 20
Charles Collins

Charred homes sit in piles of ash in Mwe Tone village of Pale township in the Sagaing region, Myanmar, Feb. 1, 2022. (Credit: AP Photo.)

Myanmar church can be helped with Synodality, Japanese cardinal-elect says

Nov 20
Nirmala Carvalho

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher arrives at the Catholic University of Central Africa as Cameroon (Credit: Ngala Killian Chimtom.)

Vatican diplomat marks anniversary of framework agreement in Cameroon

Nov 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Christian groups in UK call on banks to stop supporting fossil fuels

Nov 19
Charles Collins

Holocaust survivor rebukes Pope over calling Gaza a ‘genocide’

Nov 19
Crux Staff

A case study in how the Vatican’s abuse reform efforts have failed

Nov 18
Elise Ann Allen

Catholic bishops in Gabon call referendum ‘a step toward democratic restoration’

Nov 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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To fix the pension deficit, the Vatican may first need to face its trust deficit

Nov 24
John L. Allen Jr.

Only in Italy: Why the Vatican owes Lucifer a debt

Nov 23
John L. Allen Jr.

Saga of Argentine ex-priest (we think) captures perils of pre-fabricated scripts

Nov 17
John L. Allen Jr.

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Nov 12
John L. Allen Jr.

Hysteria aside, elections don’t change everything … just ask Mar Awa III

Nov 10
John L. Allen Jr.

Charles Collins

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris makes a statement outside Government Buildings ahead of the Dail being formally dissolved for the General Election scheduled for next Nov. 29, in Dublin Friday Nov. 8, 2024. (Credit: Gareth Chaney/PA Wire/PA via AP.)

Irish bishops call for voters to remember life issues ahead of elections

Nov 21
Charles Collins

Dave West, left, and his brother Larry West, both of Fort Worth, Texas, demonstrate outside the hotel where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are meeting in Dallas on June 14. 2002. (Credit: Charlie Riedel/AP.)

Survivors and safeguarding experts call on Vatican to remove all abusers

Nov 20
Charles Collins

(Credit: Pixabay.)

Christian groups in UK call on banks to stop supporting fossil fuels

Nov 19
Charles Collins

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, Sunday Sept. 22, 2024. (Credit: Peter Byrne/PA via AP.)

British bishops call for ‘compassion’ ahead of vote in Parliament on assisted suicide

Nov 16
Charles Collins

Campaigners argue that governments must tax major polluters such as fossil fuel companies to raise further money to fund the climate finance pot. (Credit: CAFOD.)

Catholic charity praises British promises at COP29 summit in Baku

Nov 13
Charles Collins

Elise Ann Allen

Pope to push Mediterranean agenda in visit to Corsica

Nov 23
Elise Ann Allen

‘Techie teen’, mountaineer to get halos during jubilee year

Nov 20
Elise Ann Allen

A case study in how the Vatican’s abuse reform efforts have failed

Nov 18
Elise Ann Allen

Ex-members of women’s branch of troubled Peru movement say abuse was widespread

Nov 16
Elise Ann Allen

Rather than turf wars, Argentine case may turn on difference between bad judgment and abuse

Nov 15
Elise Ann Allen

John Lavenburg

Members of immigration advocacy groups demand the City Council enact an ordinance making Los Angeles a sanctuary city outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Credit: Damian Dovarganes/AP.)

Amid uncertainty, Iowa bishops ensure advocacy and solidarity with local migrant community

Nov 22
John Lavenburg

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies during the House Committee hearing on Ways and Means hearing, March 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Credit: Mariam Zuhaib/AP.)

U.S. Bishops advocate against nondiscrimination language in HHS proposal

Nov 21
John Lavenburg

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso poses in his office in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, April 4, 2022. (Giovanna Dell'Orto/AP.)

Following Trump’s election, El Paso bishop expresses concern for migrants in the U.S.

Nov 15
John Lavenburg

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the U.S. Bishops' Conference secretary, presents on the conference's new mission directive on Nov. 13. The new mission directive, which was overwhelmingly approved, prioritizes evangelizing the disaffiliated, unaffiliated, and young people. (Credit: USCCB Public Affairs.)

U.S. bishops vote to prioritize evangelizing the unaffiliated, disaffiliated, and youth

Nov 14
John Lavenburg

President Donald Trump appears on Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth at a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (Credit: Andrew Harnik/AP.)

On presidential election result, American bishops emphasize longtime pastoral priorities

Nov 13
John Lavenburg

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