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Erika Kirk’s words spotlight forgiveness in a divided nation

Friend offers intimate portrait of Pope Leo in new book

Oct 28
Elise Ann Allen

Police tape blocks the door of the rectory of St. John the Baptist Church in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. (Credit: Josh Funk/AP.)

Man pleads guilty to killing Catholic priest who was stabbed in his rectory in Nebraska

Oct 29
Josh Funk,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV speaks at his General Audience in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Oct. 29, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says Catholic Church ‘does not tolerate’ anti-Semitism

Oct 29
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV, flanked by Cardinal Jose Tolentino de Mendonca, right, shows the apostolic letter on education before celebrating a Mass for the opening of the academic year of the Pontifical University and for the Jubilee of the Educational World in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025.(Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

Oct 28
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Erika Kirk reacts after President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom to her murdered husband Charlie Kirk in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 14, 2025. (Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP.)

Erika Kirk’s words spotlight forgiveness in a divided nation

Oct 30
Deepa Bharath,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV speaks in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on Oct. 30, 2025: (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo urges students to ‘not settle for fads’

Oct 30
Crux Staff

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, gestures during a Nov. 15, 2022, news conference after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the fall general assembly of the bishops in Baltimore. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.)

US bishops’ leader: Shutdown consequences ‘catastrophic’ for neediest

Oct 30
Crux Staff

Archbishop Jacques Mourad (Credit: ACN.)

Archbishop says Church is ‘dying’ in Syria

Oct 30
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Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

Oct 12, 2019
S. Kyle Johnson, Boston College