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The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. (Credit: Pixabay.)

Faith leaders condemn a Pennsylvania Halloween parade float with an Auschwitz sign

Nov 4, 2025
Mark Scolforo,
Associated Press

Shown is the St. Francis Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Darby, Pa., Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Chaim "Charlie" Steg, who oversaw the suburban Philadelphia nursing home pleaded no contest Wednesday, June 2, 2021, to endangering three residents who before dying suffered health complications because of inadequate staffing levels, prosecutors said. (Credit: Matt Rourke/AP.)

Former nursing home manager pleas to endangering 3 residents

Jun 3, 2021
Mark Scolforo

Pennsylvania State House advances 2-year child sex abuse lawsuit window

Apr 8, 2021
Mark Scolforo

Pennsylvania vote signals support for child sex abuse window in bill form

Apr 7, 2021
Mark Scolforo

Child sex abuse lawsuit ‘window’ amendment clears Pa. House

Mar 25, 2021
Mark Scolforo

Child sexual abuse lawsuit ‘window’ moves near referendum in Pennsylvania

Jan 28, 2021
Mark Scolforo

Pennsylvania justices review priest abuse lawsuit’s ruling on time limits

Oct 21, 2020
Mark Scolforo

Evangelicals at base of Trump hopes for Pennsylvania repeat

Sep 20, 2020
Mark Scolforo

Pennsylvania House votes to bar shutting down churches in disasters

Sep 16, 2020
Mark Scolforo

British bishop slams assisted suicide bill as bad and unnecessary

Sep 8
Fionn Shiner

A man prays at a sanctuary dedicated to late Argentine singer Gilda on the 30th anniversary of her death in a bus crash, in Entre Rios, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Natacha Pisarenko/AP.)

30 years after her death, Gilda embodies Argentina’s enduring faith in folk saints

Sep 8
Isabel Debre

Pope Leo XIV receives a box with butterflies as he arrives at the Basilica Sanctuary of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, central Italy, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope returns to sanctuary where he prayed after election and unveils a fresco depicting the event

Sep 8
Silvia Stellacci,
Nicole Winfield

A man touches the cross as Serbian national military servicemen stand around the coffin of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide and other atrocities during the war in Bosnia, at the St. Luka Church, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP.)

Body of war criminal Mladic lies in state at Orthodox church in Serbian capital ahead of funeral

Sep 7
Dusan Stojanovic,
Jovana Gec

A Message from Elise Ann Allen

Sep 6
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Benedict the XIV early in his pontificate. (Credit: Associated Press.)

The ‘Benedictine’ through-line in Leo XIV’s thinking about Vatican II

Sep 6
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV receives a box with butterflies as he arrives at the Basilica Sanctuary of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, central Italy, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope returns to sanctuary where he prayed after election and unveils a fresco depicting the event

Sep 8
Silvia Stellacci,
Nicole Winfield

Editor’s Note: A fond farewell to a dear colleague

Sep 6
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