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Vatican extends olive branch to breakaway SSPX society

Vatican extends olive branch to breakaway SSPX society

Feb 12
Elise Ann Allen

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Conservative Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission ousted in dispute over antisemitism

Feb 12
Peter Smith,
Associated Press

Journalists attend the press preview of the exhibition "Bernini and the Barberini" at Palazzo Barberini in Rome on Feb. 11, 2026, with the marble statues from The Four Seasons cycle by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini on display. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Bernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter’s Basilica

Feb 12
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Believers attend an Orthodox service for the “sanctification of honey” at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Church in the town of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, on Feb. 10, 2026. (Credit: Valentina Petrova/AP.)

Bulgarians pray for bees and bless honey on St. Haralambos Day

Feb 11
Associated Press

Vatican extends olive branch to breakaway SSPX society

Feb 12
Elise Ann Allen

The attacked village of Woro, Nigeria, on Feb. 5, 2026. (Credit: Musa Salim/AP.)

US will send troops to Nigeria to train the military to fight extremism

Feb 12
Associated Press

Journalists attend the press preview of the exhibition "Bernini and the Barberini" at Palazzo Barberini in Rome on Feb. 11, 2026, with the marble statues from The Four Seasons cycle by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini on display. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Bernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter’s Basilica

Feb 12
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Conservative Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission ousted in dispute over antisemitism

Feb 12
Peter Smith,
Associated Press

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