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Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

With address of polygamy, Vatican flunks early test of synodality

Nov 26
Charles Collins

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican answers African bishops concerned about polygamy with document praising monogamous marriage

Nov 25
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, August 6, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo to make international debut with tightrope act

Nov 26
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV talks Thanksgiving, Türkiye and Lebanon, Ukraine, Violence against Women

Nov 26
Crux Staff

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the town of Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

Nov 27
Crux Staff

Vatican budget shortfall nearly halved in 2024

Nov 27
Crux Staff

People who were kidnapped in a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kabuna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerian rights group links surge in violence to Vatican’s ‘inconsistent’ narrative

Nov 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross over the Waters in Cádiz, Spain. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Spanish bishop accused of sexual abuse maintains his innocence

Nov 27
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is pictured Aug. 29, 2002, in Los Angeles. (Credit: CNS photo/Reuters.)

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels feels like home for many

Sep 18, 2022
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New Rochester, Minn., bishop’s heart is ‘overwhelmed with joy, gratitude’

Aug 3, 2022
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Ask God for courage to defend the voiceless, nuncio says at L.A. Red Mass

Oct 23, 2021
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Bishops say ‘Rosary for America’ Oct. 7 imperative for a country in crisis

Oct 5, 2020
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California mission founded by St. Junipero Serra gets a papal upgrade

Jul 15, 2020
Pablo Kay, CNS

L.A. Archdiocese to begin opening churches under detailed safety measures

May 27, 2020
Pablo Kay, CNS

Justice Dept. says California’s pandemic plan should open churches sooner

May 21, 2020
Pablo Kay, CNS

Catholic doctors say churches essential, offer ‘road map’ to safely reopen

May 20, 2020
Pablo Kay, CNS

San Bernardino’s new coadjutor welcomed by over 2,500 faithful at Mass

Mar 6, 2020
Pablo Kay, CNS