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Pope Leo’s first consistory to be both a landmark and a challenge

Pope Leo XIV leaves St. Peter's Square at the end of the last Jubilee audience, at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo summons world’s cardinals for a key assembly to help him govern the church

Dec 20
Associated Press

Erika Kirk during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 on Dec. 18 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Credit: Jon Cherry/AP.)

Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk, a Catholic, backs Vice President JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid

Dec 20
Matt Brown,
Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press

Manuel Rodriguez celebrates Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York, on Sunday, May 8, 2022. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.)

Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is located

Dec 20
Luis Andres Henao,
Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest in December 2025 shows Bishop Stewart Ruch III. (Credit: Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest via AP.)

Church court acquits a bishop from a small Anglican denomination embroiled in scandal

Dec 20
Peter Smith,
Associated Press

Pope Leo’s first consistory to be both a landmark and a challenge

Dec 22
Elise Ann Allen

Vice President JD Vance speaks during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Phoenix. (Credit: Jon Cherry/AP.)

Vance refuses to set red lines over bigotry as conservatives feud at Turning Point

Dec 22
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Sejal Govindarao, Associated Press

Freed students of St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community are reunited with their parents on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/AP.)

130 schoolchildren and staff abducted in Nigeria last month have been released, police say

Dec 22
Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Associated Press

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Archbishop Gregory Aymond, of New Orleans, listens during a news conference at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 12, 2013. (Credit: Patrick Semansky/AP.)

Court settlement approved for New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims

Dec 9
Jack Brook,
Associated Press

Bishop James F. Checchio meets students at St. Catherine of Siena in Metairie during his introduction as the next Archbishop of New Orleans on Sep. 24, 2025. (Credit: Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate via AP.)

Pope names successor to embattled New Orleans archbishop after sex abuse settlement

Sep 25
Nicole Winfield,
Jack Brook, Associated Press

Archbishop Gregory Aymond conducts the procession of a Mass on April 12, 2020. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

New Orleans Archdiocese agrees to $230 million settlement in clergy sex abuse case, attorneys say

Sep 9
Jack Brook,
Associated Press

Jari Honora, family historian for the Historic New Orleans Collection, shows the genealogy material of the grandparents of Pope Leo XIV in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 9, 2025. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America

May 10
Jack Brook,
Deepa Bharath, Associated Press