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German Catholics’ spiritual conviction tested, says prominent lay leader

Mar 20, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Cardinal Marx: Church must have serious debate on celibacy, role of women

Mar 15, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Austrian Catholics start year of celebrations for Emperor Maximilian

Jan 9, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Finnish bishop remains hospitalized with serious head injury after fall

Jan 4, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

German cardinal urges change in tradition ahead of celibacy discussion

Jan 4, 2019
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Catholics lead effort that paved way for law on aid to Mideast Christians

Dec 20, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Postwar orphans were victims of German clergy abuse

Dec 14, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

German prosecutors launch crackdown on Church sex abuse

Dec 7, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Berlin Archdiocese hosts banquet for the poor

Nov 20, 2018
Zita Ballinger Fletcher

British bishop slams assisted suicide bill as bad and unnecessary

Sep 8
Fionn Shiner

A man prays at a sanctuary dedicated to late Argentine singer Gilda on the 30th anniversary of her death in a bus crash, in Entre Rios, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Natacha Pisarenko/AP.)

30 years after her death, Gilda embodies Argentina’s enduring faith in folk saints

Sep 8
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Pope Leo XIV receives a box with butterflies as he arrives at the Basilica Sanctuary of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, central Italy, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope returns to sanctuary where he prayed after election and unveils a fresco depicting the event

Sep 8
Silvia Stellacci,
Nicole Winfield

A man touches the cross as Serbian national military servicemen stand around the coffin of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide and other atrocities during the war in Bosnia, at the St. Luka Church, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP.)

Body of war criminal Mladic lies in state at Orthodox church in Serbian capital ahead of funeral

Sep 7
Dusan Stojanovic,
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British bishop slams assisted suicide bill as bad and unnecessary

Pope Leo XIV receives a box with butterflies as he arrives at the Basilica Sanctuary of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, central Italy, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope returns to sanctuary where he prayed after election and unveils a fresco depicting the event

Sep 8
Silvia Stellacci,
Nicole Winfield

An election poster of the German far right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), right, is attached to a lamppost in front of a giant election poster showing a map of Germany, at the headquarters of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 29, 2025. Slogan reads: ‘Now AfD’. (Credit: Michael Sohn/AP.)

German far-right wins state elections after local church’s warnings

Sep 7
Fionn Shiner

British bishop slams assisted suicide bill as bad and unnecessary

Sep 8
Fionn Shiner

Aerial photo of damage near Nuestra Señora de la Luz church in Temascalcingo in a village in the municipality of Huejutla, Mexico, on Sep. 6, 2026. (Credit: Ramsés Mercado/AP.)

Explosion of fireworks near church in central Mexico kills at least 10, injures 64

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