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Saint Joseph Cathedral in the Diocese of Buffalo. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)

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A view of the main entrance of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Monday. Feb. 17, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Afghan refugees hold placards during a meeting to discuss their situation after President Donald Trump paused U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 24, 2025. (Credit: Anjum Naveed/AP.)

U.S. bishops sue Trump administration over funding freeze

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Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

In his native Argentina, people praying for the health of Pope Francis

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Cardinal Michael Czerny in Vatican press office in Rome, March 30, 2023. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope’s point-man on migration and aid concerned about USAID cuts, alarmed at US migrant crackdown

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Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ’s Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican, on Nov. 30, 2004. The recently-opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. But they’re also providing details about another contentious chapter in Vatican history: the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. (Credit: Plinio Lepri/AP.)

Vatican’s Pius XII archives shed light on another contentious chapter: The Legion of Christ scandal

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Associated Press

This Feb. 15, 2007 file photo shows then Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe, in Bruges, Belgium. Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. (Credit: Peter Maenhoudt/AP.)

Belgium bishop defrocked 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew

Mar 21, 2024
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Survivors of sex abuse hold a cross as they gather in front of Via della Conciliazione, the road leading to St. Peter’s Square, visible in background, during a twilight vigil prayer of the victims of sex abuse, in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Five years ago this week, Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and they needed to address it, but now, five years later, despite new church laws to hold bishops accountable and promises to do better, the Catholic Church’s in-house legal system and pastoral response to victims has proven again to be incapable of dealing with the problem. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Long after pope’s abuse summit, victims still traumatized by the system meant to address their cases

Feb 20, 2024
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Prefect of the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Bishop Sergio Pagano speaks in his office at The Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, during an interview with The Associated Press. In a new book-length interview with Italian journalist Massimo Franco, “Secretum”, Pagano divulges some of the unknown or behind-the-scenes details of well-known sagas of the Holy See and its relations with the outside world over the past 12 centuries. From Napoleon’s sacking of the archive in 1810 to the Galileo affair and the peculiar conclave of 1922 that was financed almost entirely by donations from U.S. Catholics. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is retiring. Here’s what he wants you to know

Feb 20, 2024
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Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder’s lies

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Founding member of pope’s child protection board resigns

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Vatican ‘donating’ its own 3 Parthenon sculptures to Greece

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Nuns pray in front of a statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 17, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Top aides hit back against rumors of papal death, resignation

Feb 21
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Nuns pray for Pope Francis in front of the statue of Pope John Paul II at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

As Pope Francis marks first week in hospital, Church leaders call for prayer

Feb 21
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Church of Saint Francis in Salvador, Brazil. (Credit: Civil Defense of Salvador.)

Collapse of historical church’s ceiling sparks fear of new accidents in Brazil

Feb 21
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Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

In his native Argentina, people praying for the health of Pope Francis

Feb 20
Eduardo Campos Lima