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Cardinal visits New Orleans congregation whose founder is up for sainthood

Oct 23, 2022
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Speaker draws lessons for today from centuries-old insights of St. Ignatius

Oct 15, 2022
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Cardinal: Business must ensure products, services contribute to common good

Oct 7, 2022
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Sep 15, 2022
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Retired New Orleans Archbishop approaches 90 with no signs of slowing down

Sep 11, 2022
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Priest recalls saying Mass in Ukrainian church reopened after 45 years

Apr 3, 2022
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‘It was over in four Hail Marys,’ says survivor of New Orleans tornado

‘It was over in four Hail Marys,’ says survivor of New Orleans tornado

Mar 24, 2022
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New Orleans billboard campaign reminds all to ‘Keep Christ in Christmas’

Dec 4, 2021
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Barron: If religion becomes an afterthought, ‘our society loses its soul’

Oct 7, 2021
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Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy after nearly a year behind bars

Jun 26
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Pope Leo XIV meets with cardinals in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on June 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV says war ‘never blessed by God’ as he opens meeting of world’s cardinals

Jun 26
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV receives the baseball from the final out of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series from former Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski. (Credit: Pierzynski on X.)

Pope Leo XIV receives World Series baseball from former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski

Jun 26
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Associated Press

Premium article: JD Vance wants better US-Vatican relations, but is he the man to build the relationship?

Jun 25
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Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists as he leaves his residence in Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, to return to the Vatican, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

These traditionalist Catholics are defying Pope Leo XIV, and embracing their outsider status

Jun 24
Nicole Winfield

Premium article: JD Vance wants better US-Vatican relations, but is he the man to build the relationship?

Jun 25
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Catholics covered in mud and dried banana leaves join the mud people festival on the feast day of Saint John the Baptist at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine Catholics honor St. John the Baptist with a mud-covered display of faith

Jun 24
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Aaron Favila

Melencio Neuda, center, and other devotees who participated in the mud people festival raise their hands during a mass on the feast day of Saint John the Baptist at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (Credit: Aaron Favila/AP.)

Photos show Philippine Catholics smearing mud on their bodies for festival honoring John the Baptist

Jun 24
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