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Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

Visiting Italian president, pope urges multilateralism, welcome of migrants

Oct 14
Elise Ann Allen

Group defining crime of spiritual abuse making good progress, cardinal says

Oct 15
Elise Ann Allen

Venezuelan Catholics among those quietly celebrating Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado

Oct 14
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV speaks at the General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says without Christ, life becomes ‘wandering without a goal’

Oct 15
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Rosary vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

Oct 16
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV meets Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025. Lula holds a book with a black and white photo representing the Asháninka, an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in Brazil and Peru. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

Oct 16
Eduardo Campos Lima

Supporters of National Citizen Party (NCP) listen to the party leader Nahid Islam during a political rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP.)

Bangladesh’s Christian community seeks representation in the next parliamentary election

Oct 16
Stephan Uttom Rozario

A child with other people walks around a cage to look at bugs at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2025. (Credit: Yuri Kageyama/AP.)

Low birthrate affecting Catholic Church in Japan

Oct 16
Nirmala Carvalho

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

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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