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Cuba will release 51 people from prison in an unexpected move

Category: Church in Europe | Crux

Church in Europe

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, offers a pair of hundred dollar bills to attendees during a keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference, April 7, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP.)

Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away

Mar 13
Nicole Winfield

A friar walks in front of the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) mausoleum on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, on Oct. 13, 2019. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Contract giving millions to redefine controversial Spanish memorial site emerges amid fierce legal battles

Mar 13
Fionn Shiner

This image released by the Italian Culture Ministry on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, shows the oil-on-canvas painting “Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini” by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (16th century). (Credit: Alessio Panunzi and Alberto Novelli/Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Ministero della Cultura via AP.)

Italy buys Caravaggio painting of future Pope for about $35 million, one of its largest payouts for a single work

Mar 12
Giada Zampano

Restorer Domiziana Marchioro polishes the altar od St. Sebastian inside the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, Monday, March 9, 2026. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

EU recovery funds fuel frenzied restorations around Rome, including at famed basilica

Mar 10
Trisha Thomas

The Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie, best known as the home of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper," sits in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (Credit: María Teresa Hernández/AP.)

At the convent of Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper,’ Dominican friars still live, pray and welcome visitors

Mar 10
María Teresa Hernández

The Cologne Cathedral is seen in Cologne, Germany, July 6, 2004. (Credit: Hermann J. Knippertz/AP.)

Cologne Cathedral, one of Germany’s best-known landmarks, to charge tourists for admission

Mar 6
Associated Press

The sculpted bust inside the Basilica of Saint Agnes Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy, which, in light of the new studies by Italian researcher Valentina Salerno, may be reattributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Claims of ‘rediscovered’ Michelangelos unsettle Renaissance experts

Mar 5
Nicole Winfield

Spanish actress’s public attack on Church shows “uneasy conscience”

Mar 5
Fionn Shiner

Church should take a ‘critical and prophetic stance’ towards polarizing rhetoric, says Spanish archbishop

Mar 2
Fionn Shiner

In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a local passes by a destroyed apartment building following an Russian air strike in the town of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Credit: Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP.)

On anniversary of Russian invasion, Major Archbishop says Pope Leo understands Ukraine

Feb 24
Charles Collins

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