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Father John Wauck blesses the coffin of John L. Allen Jr. on Jan. 26, 2026, in Sant’Eugenio basilica in Rome. (Credit: YouTube.)

Funeral held in Rome for John L. Allen Jr., founding editor-in-chief of Crux

ROME – A funeral Mass was celebrated for John L. Allen Jr. on Monday in Sant’Eugenio basilica in Rome. The legendary Vatican beat reporter and Church affairs analyst died Thursday, January 22, two days after his 61st birthday, following a lengthy – and by every account heroic – battle with […]

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Pope Leo XIV receives officials of the Tribunal of Roman Rota for the inauguration of their judicial year in the Vatican on Jan. 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says the Catholic Church cannot ‘relativize’ its teaching on marriage

Jan 27
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Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo attend a rally in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 5, 2018. (Credit: Alfredo Zuniga/AP.)

Nicaraguan regime forbids door-to-door pastoral visits in Diocese of León

Jan 27
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African Sister leads continental campaign against human trafficking ahead of St. Bakhita’s feast

Jan 27
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Brazilian Church campaigns for housing policies, seeks to expand presence in favelas

Jan 27
Eduardo Campos Lima

Nirmala Carvalho and her family with John and Elise Allen in Rome, Italy. (Credit: Nirmala Carvalho.)

India correspondent of Crux remembers John L. Allen, Jr.

Jan 25
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From the Culture of Contempt to a “Catholic Commons”: Remembering the Vision of John L. Allen Jr. (1965–2026)

Jan 23
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Victims of human trafficking are detained in an office in Bamako, Mali on Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: INTERPOL via AP.)

African Sister leads continental campaign against human trafficking ahead of St. Bakhita’s feast

Jan 27
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Illuminated by a motorcycle headlight, youth perform a street dance known as passinho in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2024. (Credit: Silvia Izquierdo/AP.)

Brazilian Church campaigns for housing policies, seeks to expand presence in favelas

Jan 27
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Nirmala Carvalho and her family with John and Elise Allen in Rome, Italy. (Credit: Nirmala Carvalho.)

India correspondent of Crux remembers John L. Allen, Jr.

Jan 25
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From the Culture of Contempt to a “Catholic Commons”: Remembering the Vision of John L. Allen Jr. (1965–2026)

Jan 23
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Jan 23
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Jan 25
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Jan 22
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Jan 22
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Barham Salih, President of Iraq addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, on Sept. 23, 2021. (Credit: Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP.)

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People wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, Oct. 6, 2024. (Credit: Chinedu Asadu/AP.)

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Jan 24
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The National Institutes of Health’s James Shannon building is seen on the agency’s campus in Bethesda, Md., Oct. 24, 2014. (Credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP.)

Trump administration halts use of human fetal tissue in NIH-funded research

Jan 24
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Jan 23
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Guardia Civil officers collect evidence next the wreckage of train cars involved in a collision in Adamuz, Spain, on Jan. 20, 2026. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Pope Leo joins Spanish Church in mourning victims of train crash

Jan 23
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Pope Leo XIV greets people during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Jan 23
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Nekima Levy Armstrong holds up her fist after speaking at an anti-ICE rally for Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (Credit: Angelina Katsanis/AP.)

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Jan 23
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Jan 22
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Pope John Paul II gives the noon blessing in Perugia, Italy, October 26, 1986. (Credit: Gianni Foggia/Associated Press.)

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Pope Leo channels his inner Benedict XVI by extolling ‘healthy secularism’

Sep 30, 2025
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Sep 29, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV receives officials of the Tribunal of Roman Rota for the inauguration of their judicial year in the Vatican on Jan. 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says the Catholic Church cannot ‘relativize’ its teaching on marriage

Jan 27
Charles Collins

A van displaying a sign passes Big Ben as demonstrators both for and against assisted dying hold banners outside Parliament in London, Friday, June 20, 2025, as British lawmakers are set to vote Friday on whether to back a Bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales. (Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP.)

Assisted Suicide bill opposed by Catholic bishops in Wales

Jan 16
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Australian Cardinal George Pell in Rome on May 20, 2021. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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Jan 10
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Pope Leo meeting with members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See in the Vatican on Jan. 9, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Persecution against Christians needs to be addressed, Pope Leo tells Vatican diplomats

Jan 9
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Pope Leo meeting with members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See in the Vatican on Jan. 9, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Jan 8
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Pope closes jubilee saying it opened new horizon of hope

Jan 6
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Pope expresses ‘deep concern’ after US military action in Venezuela

Jan 4
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A woman holds a picture of Pope Francis reading in Italian “Farewell Francis, thank you His Holiness, today all the people cry for you” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican after Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Parishioners attend Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, May 8, 2022. According to a report released Thursday, April 13, 2023, by the Pew Research Center, Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.)

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Mar 26, 2025
John Lavenburg

Religious freedom commission expresses ‘hope’ with Trump, cites Biden IRFA violation

Mar 26, 2025
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Prime Minister Mark Carney meets young members of the crowd during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Montreal, Sunday March 16, 2025. (Credit: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP.)

Canadian Catholic leaders denounce government budget proposals

Mar 19, 2025
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