Taking the Catholic Pulse

Support Us
About Us

Carol Zimmermann

Catholic News Service

Latest Stories

Most Popular

© 2026 Crux Now Media, LLC

Privacy & Cookie Policy

Taking the Catholic Pulse

About Crux
Contact Us
Advertising
Videos
Support Us

Podcast:

Quick Links

Currents News
Magisterium
Vulgate
VMR Communications
DeSales Media Group in the Diocese of Brooklyn

The head of Vatican Security, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, center, follows Pope Leo XIV as he visits the parish complex of Santa Maria della Presentazione on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope accepts resignation of US bishop who was arrested for alleged financial crimes

Mar 10
Associated Press

The shadow of the crucifix surmounting his pastoral staff falls across Pope Leo XIV as he presides over Ash Wednesday Mass, marking the start of Catholic Lent, inside the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV: ‘Profound sorrow’ for slain priest, all suffering in Middle East

Mar 10
Crux Staff

Cardinal Francesco Montenegro, left, and from right, Father Paolo Stacchiotti and Cardinal Baldo Reina listen to Pope Leo XIV during a visit to the parish complex of Santa Maria della Presentazione on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

As pope seeks dialogue and diplomacy, 2 US cardinals reject US-Israeli war in Iran

Mar 10
Nicole Winfield

Biography explores fascinating life of ‘Father Brown’ actor, cinema great Kenneth More

Mar 10
Crux Staff

Latest

Cardinal Sako, head of Chaldean Church in Iraq, retires as war engulfs the region

Carol Zimmermann | Crux

Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.)

Cardinal Sako, head of Chaldean Church in Iraq, retires as war engulfs the region

Mar 11
Nicole Winfield,
Abby Sewell

A woman and young girl displaced from Boko Haram attacks push a cart in Dikwa, Borno province, north east Nigeria, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Jihadis intensify attacks against Nigeria’s military, killing officers and carting away weapons

Mar 11
Chinedu Asadu

UNIFIL peacekeepers meet civilians waiting to be evacuated in southern Lebanon, March 10, 2026. (Credit: United Nations.)

Christian families flee southern Lebanon due to attacks from Israel

Mar 11
Crux Staff

Ed Martin speaks at an event at the Capitol in Washington, on June 13, 2023. (Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP.)

Justice Department official accused of ethics violations for letter to Georgetown dean

Mar 11
Michael Kunzelman

Author's Posts

Bishops look at ways to expand how they pass on Catholic faith

Nov 18, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Bishops mark charter’s 20th year, pledge continued outreach to survivors

Nov 18, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, speaks Nov. 15, 2022, during a session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.)

Papal nuncio urges U.S. bishops to stay true to church’s mission

Nov 16, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

U.S. bishops launch new approach to teaching the faith

Nov 8, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Oklahoma inmate gets temporary reprieve from execution

Nov 4, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Supreme Court justices question affirmative action admission policies

Nov 1, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, is seen in Anaheim, Calif., calling for an end to the death penalty in this 2016 file photo. (Credit: J.D. Long-Garcia/The Tidings via CNS.)

‘Can’t not do it,’ says Sister Prejean of her fight to end death penalty

Oct 23, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Catholic Mobilizing Network honors advocates working to end death penalty

Oct 16, 2022
Carol Zimmermann

Texas death-row inmate takes plea for DNA testing to Supreme Court

Oct 13, 2022
Carol Zimmermann