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Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone’s throw from his grave at the Vatican

This image released by Netflix shows Josh O'Connor, left, and Daniel Craig in a scene from "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery."(Credit: John Wilson/Netflix via AP.)

The latest ‘Knives Out’ film takes place in the Court of the Gentiles

Dec 15
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo makes Vogue top 50 ‘best dressed’ list for 2025

Dec 16
Elise Ann Allen

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks in Brussels on March 23, 2023. (Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP.)

Spanish government clashes publicly with Church hierarchy

Dec 16
Fionn Shiner

An 82-foot fir tree from the Ultimo valley in South Tyrol, Italy, is lit up as Christmas tree together with a crib in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Vatican unveils Nativity scene, lights Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square

Dec 16
Associated Press

Burkhard Scheffler, second from right, a homeless man who died from the cold in 2022 on the edge of St. Peter's Square, is portrayed as St. Peter in a painting by German artist Michael Triegel and exposed in the chapel of the Teutonic College at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone’s throw from his grave at the Vatican

Dec 17
Geir Moulson,
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

Father Julio Lancellotti hands food to a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 3, 2020. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Brazilian cardinal orders a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks

Dec 17
Mauricio Savarese,
Associated Press

Aerial view of Djibo town, Burkina Faso, Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: Sam Mednick/AP.)

Burkina Faso has become a ‘Church on the move,’ says Catholic priest

Dec 17
Ngala Killian Chimtom

(Credit: Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion de Maragondon/Facebook.)

300-year-old pulpit, a national cultural treasure in Philippines, collapses

Dec 17
Joseph San Mateo

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