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This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, shows the oil-on-canvas painting “Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini” by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (16th century). (Credit: Alessio Panunzi and Alberto Novelli/Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Ministero della Cultura via AP.)

Italy buys Caravaggio painting of future Pope for about $35 million, one of its largest payouts for a single work

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Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred dollar bills to attendees during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference, April 7, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP.)

Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away

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A man walks past Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (Credit: Gene J. Puskar/AP.)

Head priest of Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh accused of stealing baseball cards from Walmart

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Cardinal Konrad Krajewski walks after being elected in a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, June 28, 2018. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope appoints trusted fellow Augustinian to run Vatican’s charity office

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Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 6, 2025. (Credit: Eraldo Peres/AP.)

Cuba will release 51 people from prison in an unexpected move

Mar 13
Associated Press

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred dollar bills to attendees during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference, April 7, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP.)

Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away

Mar 13
Nicole Winfield

A friar walks in front of the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) mausoleum on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, on Oct. 13, 2019. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Contract giving millions to redefine controversial Spanish memorial site emerges amid fierce legal battles

Mar 13
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Cardinal Konrad Krajewski walks after being elected in a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, June 28, 2018. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope appoints trusted fellow Augustinian to run Vatican’s charity office

Mar 13
Associated Press

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