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Catholic pilgrim murdered in Pakistan

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Pope Leo XIV at his general audience in the Vatican on Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Traditionalists rejoice that top US cardinal allowed to celebrate old Latin Mass at St. Peter’s

Sep 9
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Archbishop Gregory Aymond conducts the procession of a Mass on April 12, 2020. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

New Orleans Archdiocese agrees to $230 million settlement in clergy sex abuse case, attorneys say

Sep 9
Jack Brook,
Associated Press

St Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Catholic pilgrim murdered in Pakistan

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

Smoke rises from an explosion, allegedly caused by an Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar, on Sep. 9, 2025. (Credit: UGC via AP.)

The pope calls Israeli attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar ‘really serious’

Sep 9
Associated Press

St Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Catholic pilgrim murdered in Pakistan

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

A protester wearing flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman shouts slogans at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government’s various ministries and offices during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Credit: Niranjan Shrestha/AP.)

Priest said Catholics in Nepal are hoping for an end to violence

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

A Cameroonian policeman and a gendarme patrol in Lysoka, near Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region, October 07, 2018. (Credit: Voice of America.)

Cameroon bishop laments spiraling violence in Anglophone regions

Sep 10
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Archbishop Gregory Aymond conducts the procession of a Mass on April 12, 2020. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

New Orleans Archdiocese agrees to $230 million settlement in clergy sex abuse case, attorneys say

Sep 9
Jack Brook,
Associated Press

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