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Philippine Catholics honor St. John the Baptist with a mud-covered display of faith

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Bishop Arnaldo Carvalheiro Neto of Jundiaí, Brazil, meets with the parents of a child attacked in the church of Nossa Senhora do Desterro (Our Lady of Exile). The meeting took place on June 24, 2025. (Credit: Diocese of Jundiaí.)

Woman attacks toddler with pepper spray during Mass in Brazil

Jun 27, 2025
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Pope Francis speaks to participants in a Feb. 3, 2025, International Summit on the Rights of the Child inside the Clementine Hall of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope leads global summit on defending children’s rights

Feb 4, 2025
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Francis greets a child after he baptized him during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 12, 2025, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope offers ‘baby bonus’ to Vatican employees

Jan 16, 2025
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Pope urges poor, disabled children to ‘keep the light of love burning’

Sep 7, 2024
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Tomas Hlavaty. (Credit: Diocese of Alba)

Italian priest’s exit for wife, unborn child renews celibacy debate

Sep 2, 2024
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Refugees fleeing conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, in 2020. (Credit: Nariman El-Mofty, Associated Press.)

Drought driving new crisis of child hunger in Ethiopia, Catholic experts say

Aug 26, 2024
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Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna of Malta and Malta Trust Foundation chair Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca at a signing ceremony on July 5, 2024. (Credit: Archdiocese of Malta.)

Malta lends famed property to center for disabled children

Jul 11, 2024
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Rescuers, volunteers and medical workers search for survivors after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s biggest children’s hospital. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Pope, Ukraine Church leader condemns children’s hospital attack in Kyiv

Jul 10, 2024
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Famed Italian actor and comic stars on Pope’s own stage

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Philippine Catholics honor St. John the Baptist with a mud-covered display of faith

Jun 24
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Photos show Philippine Catholics smearing mud on their bodies for festival honoring John the Baptist

Jun 24
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These traditionalist Catholics are defying Pope Leo XIV, and embracing their outsider status

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Vatican says “No” to German bishops’ request for lay homilies

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