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Habemus papam: American Cardinal Robert Prevost elected Pope Leo XIV

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Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick at St. Nereus and Achilleus Church in Rome on April 14, 2005. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94

Apr 5
David Crary,
Associated Press

A view of the St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 20, 2024. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

UK court refuses to say financier acted in ‘good faith’ in Vatican deal but says he wasn’t dishonest

Feb 22
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ’s Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican, on Nov. 30, 2004. The recently-opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. But they’re also providing details about another contentious chapter in Vatican history: the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. (Credit: Plinio Lepri/AP.)

Vatican’s Pius XII archives shed light on another contentious chapter: The Legion of Christ scandal

Jul 23, 2024
Nicole Winfield,
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

This Feb. 15, 2007 file photo shows then Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe, in Bruges, Belgium. Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. (Credit: Peter Maenhoudt/AP.)

Belgium bishop defrocked 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew

Mar 21, 2024
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

The entrance to the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. The court on Thursday, March 14, 2024 ruled that religious exemptions to the state’s unemployment tax don’t apply to a Superior-based Catholic charities ministry. (Credit: Todd Richmond/AP.)

A Wisconsin ruling on Catholic Charities raises the bar for religious tax exemptions

Mar 19, 2024
Todd Richmond,
Associated Press

Survivors of sex abuse hold a cross as they gather in front of Via della Conciliazione, the road leading to St. Peter’s Square, visible in background, during a twilight vigil prayer of the victims of sex abuse, in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Five years ago this week, Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and they needed to address it, but now, five years later, despite new church laws to hold bishops accountable and promises to do better, the Catholic Church’s in-house legal system and pastoral response to victims has proven again to be incapable of dealing with the problem. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Long after pope’s abuse summit, victims still traumatized by the system meant to address their cases

Feb 20, 2024
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Prefect of the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Bishop Sergio Pagano speaks in his office at The Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, during an interview with The Associated Press. In a new book-length interview with Italian journalist Massimo Franco, “Secretum”, Pagano divulges some of the unknown or behind-the-scenes details of well-known sagas of the Holy See and its relations with the outside world over the past 12 centuries. From Napoleon’s sacking of the archive in 1810 to the Galileo affair and the peculiar conclave of 1922 that was financed almost entirely by donations from U.S. Catholics. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is retiring. Here’s what he wants you to know

Feb 20, 2024
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

People walk in Manger Square, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. World-famous Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem have been put on hold due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.)

Under the shadow of war in Gaza, Jesus’ traditional birthplace is gearing up for a subdued Christmas

Dec 18, 2023
Julia Frankel,
Jalal Bwaitel

From left, nuns Alejandra Jaime, 39, Maria Ines Maldonado, 76, Maria Auxiliadora Estrada, 59, and Patricia Marin, 28, store fritters with Christmas figures in clear plastic bags for sale at the Convent of the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills

Dec 18, 2023
Giovanna Dell'Orto,
María Teresa Hernández

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