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100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held

Pope Leo XIV greets Canadian singer Michael Bublé after an audience Dec. 5 in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Song legend Michael Bublé meets Leo XIV, takes requests

Dec 6
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV to diplomats: ‘Holy See will not be a silent bystander’ amid challenges to peace

Dec 6
Crux Staff

At Vatican Christmas concert, Pope Leo XIV sings praises of music

Dec 7
Elise Ann Allen

Leo’s first foreign trip an exercise in learning ‘how to pope’

Dec 8
Elise Ann Allen

A worried parent of abducted school children in Papiri, Nigeria, on Nov. 28, 2025. (Credit: Associated Press.)

100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held

Dec 8
Associated Press

Leo’s first foreign trip an exercise in learning ‘how to pope’

Dec 8
Elise Ann Allen

Palestinians take part in a Christmas tree–lighting event in Manger Square, next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Jesus Christ ahead of Christmas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Christmas celebrations return to Bethlehem after 2 years of war in Gaza

Dec 8
Megan Janetsky,
Associated Press

Pope marks Marian feast urging believers to embrace God’s plan

Dec 8
Elise Ann Allen

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Sister Maria Elena cuts a photograph of a missing girl to paste on a Christmas ornament on the Tree of Hope in the Cathedral in Ecatepec, Mexico, on Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

A Christmas tree in Mexico carries the faces of loved ones who never came home

Nov 29
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

Mexican flag in Mexico City in Mexico on Nov. 13, 2025. (Credit: Claudia Rosel/AP.)

Why a centuries-old Mexican myth became Mexico’s enduring symbol

Nov 15
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

A sign that reads in Spanish: "Welcome to Mururata, cradle of Afro-Bolivian culture" stands in Mururata, Bolivia, on Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Afro-descendants in Bolivia fight invisibility with dance and memory

Sep 22
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

Children dressed in feather costumes attend a Mass celebrating Saint Francisco Solano at his namesake chapel in Emboscada, Paraguay, Thursday, July 24, 2025. Catholic parishioners in Paraguay don bird-like costumes and parade the streets to honor the 16th century saint said to possess miraculous powers. (Credit: Jorge Saenz/AP.)

Despite rainy weather, Catholics in a Paraguayan town dress as birds to honor their patron saint

Jul 25
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

From left, nuns Alejandra Jaime, 39, Maria Ines Maldonado, 76, Maria Auxiliadora Estrada, 59, and Patricia Marin, 28, store fritters with Christmas figures in clear plastic bags for sale at the Convent of the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills

Dec 18, 2023
Giovanna Dell'Orto,
María Teresa Hernández

Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile

Mar 9, 2023
María Teresa Hernández

In Mexico, Day of the Dead is actually a celebration of life

Oct 30, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Oldest public library in the Americas has Catholic origins

Oct 9, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Mexico nuns’ culinary innovations live on in storied cuisine

Oct 1, 2022
María Teresa Hernández