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

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Associated Press

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Peter Smith, Nuha Dolby

As midterms near, clergy preach politics and civics lessons

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Clergy strive to reconcile politically divided congregations

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Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city

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AP-NORC poll details rift between lay Catholics and bishops

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Pope Francis appears at a window of the Gemelli hospital in Rome, Italy, on March 23, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope Francis continues to improve, respiratory infection less serious

Apr 5
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A protestor holds a sign that reads in French, ‘Security is a right, Haiti deserves it’ in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 2, 2025. (Credit: Odelyn Joseph/AP.)

Church in Haiti shocked by murder of two nuns

Apr 5
Eduardo Campos Lima

The Holy See Secretary for Relations with States Archbishop Paul Gallagher addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (Credit: Richard Drew/AP.)

Top Vatican diplomat calls Russian foreign minister amid ceasefire tensions

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Elise Ann Allen

(Credit: Catholic Television Nigeria.)

Catholic TV channel in Nigeria set to conquer Africa

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Schoolteacher Irene Garza, 25, murdered by a Catholic priest in McAllen, Texas, in April 1960. (Credit: Family photo given to media.)

2025 is a year of anniversaries in the Church: We shouldn’t overlook the murder of Irene Garza

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Peru women’s group announces formal suppression by Vatican

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Icon from the Mégalo Metéoron Monastery in Greece, representing the First Ecumenical Council of Nikea 325 A.D., with the condemned Arius in the bottom of the icon. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

International Theological Commission marks 1700th anniversary of Council of Nicaea

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Church in Tabora, Tanzania.

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