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Pope’s time of rest continues despite surprise appearance

Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair at the end of a Mass in St. Peter's square at the Vatican Sunday, April 6, 2025, as part of the Jubilee for Sick and Healthcare Workers. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope’s time of rest continues despite surprise appearance

Apr 8
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Catholic Medical Association in the UK calls for palliative care, not assisted suicide

Apr 8
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Four ambulances to be donated to Ukraine by Pope Francis, along with the drivers, including Papal Almoner Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski (second from left), ahead of Easter 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope sends ambulances to Ukraine for Easter amid negotiation efforts

Apr 8
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Catholic groups say shrinking donor funding worsening humanitarian crises in Africa

Apr 8
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Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks in South Bend, Indiana, on March 4, 2015. (Credit: Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP.)

Theodore McCarrick is dead, and his ghost haunts the Church

Apr 6
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Pope Francis makes surprise in-person appearance for jubilee of sick

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The LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga where students were kidnapped in Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 9, 2024. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Report says terrorists, Nigerian forces killed Over 20,000 Christians in Nigeria’s South East

Apr 7
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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

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Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile

Mar 9, 2023
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In Mexico, Day of the Dead is actually a celebration of life

Oct 30, 2022
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Oldest public library in the Americas has Catholic origins

Oct 9, 2022
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Mexico nuns’ culinary innovations live on in storied cuisine

Oct 1, 2022
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Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab

Aug 29, 2022
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Explaining the tension between Nicaragua and the Catholic Church

Aug 15, 2022
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