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Debris covers the area of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, July 7, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (Credit: Eli Hartman/AP.)

Parents are divided on whether their girls should return to flood-scarred Camp Mystic in Texas

Dec 23, 2025
Sean Murphy,
Associated Press

The Oklahoma Supreme Court is pictured in the state Capitol building in Oklahoma City, May 19, 2014. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, June 25, 2024, that the approval of the nation’s first state-funded Catholic charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School, is unconstitutional. (Credit: Sue Ogrocki/AP.)

Public funds for religious charter school would be unconstitutional, Oklahoma high court says

Jun 26, 2024
Sean Murphy,
Associated Press

Audits of Oklahoma dioceses identify 22 accused clerics

Oct 4, 2019
Sean Murphy

Pope Leo XIV celebrated America's 250th birthday with U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch, his wife Sara Burch, and their family in Rome, Italy, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: U.S. Department of State.)

Premium article: A ‘teachable moment’: Controversy offers chance to understand U.S.-Holy See relations

Jul 19
Charles Collins

Four bishops lie on the floor as they are given episcopal consecration during a Mass in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary, in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (Credit: Cyril Zingaro/Keystone via AP.)

Traditionalist Catholics face a difficult choice after Vatican cuts off breakaway group

Jul 18
Holly Meyer

Mother of Noelia Castillo files criminal complaints about alleged rapes of her daughter

Jul 17
Fionn Shiner

Bishops in Panama concerned over canal-linked dam project

Jul 17
Eduardo Campos Lima

Amnesty International UK regrets report calling British bishops’ conference “anti-rights” group

Jul 15
Fionn Shiner

Mother of Noelia Castillo files criminal complaints about alleged rapes of her daughter

Jul 17
Fionn Shiner

Pope Leo XIV celebrated America's 250th birthday with U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch, his wife Sara Burch, and their family in Rome, Italy, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: U.S. Department of State.)

Premium article: A ‘teachable moment’: Controversy offers chance to understand U.S.-Holy See relations

Jul 19
Charles Collins

Four bishops lie on the floor as they are given episcopal consecration during a Mass in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary, in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (Credit: Cyril Zingaro/Keystone via AP.)

Traditionalist Catholics face a difficult choice after Vatican cuts off breakaway group

Jul 18
Holly Meyer

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A ‘teachable moment’: Controversy offers chance to understand U.S.-Holy See relations