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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets supporters in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sep. 26, 2026. (Credit: Allison Sales/AP.)

Our Lady of Aparecida emerges as key issue in race for Brazil’s presidency

  • Oct 2
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
The statue of Brazil's patron saint, the Virgin of Aparecida, stands behind glass inside the basilica named after her in the town of Aparecida, Brazil, July 23, 2013. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

What to know about the viral claim about Brazil’s patron saint jolting a tight presidential race

  • Oct 1
  • Eléonore Hughes
The Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil, in 2020, before controversial renovations by disgraced Fr. Marko Rupnik. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Why controversy skipped the Rupnik unveiling in Brazil

  • Sep 28
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

‘The Church will always believe in peace talks,’ says top Church mediator in Colombia

  • Sep 15
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Catholics believe assisted reproduction bill can be defeated in Ecuador

  • Sep 13
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
A man prays at a sanctuary dedicated to late Argentine singer Gilda on the 30th anniversary of her death in a bus crash, in Entre Rios, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Natacha Pisarenko/AP.)

30 years after her death, Gilda embodies Argentina’s enduring faith in folk saints

  • Sep 8
  • Isabel Debre
Aerial photo of damage near Nuestra Señora de la Luz church in Temascalcingo in a village in the municipality of Huejutla, Mexico, on Sep. 6, 2026. (Credit: Ramsés Mercado/AP.)

Explosion of fireworks near church in central Mexico kills at least 10, injures 64

  • Sep 7
  • Ramsés Mercado, 
    Emilio Lugo

Inside addiction and recovery: A drug rehabilitation center opens in Argentina prison

  • Sep 6
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Canadian cardinal wins defamation lawsuit over sexual abuse allegations

  • Sep 1
  • Crux Now Staff

‘Their lands are coveted’: Amazon Cardinal decries violence against Indigenous peoples

  • Aug 30
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

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At least 17, most of them Catholic pilgrims, killed in a road crash on a highway in Kenya

  • Oct 3
  • Andrew Kasuku

As annual blessing of animals takes place, some wonder: Will my pet go to heaven?

  • Oct 3
  • Charles Collins

‘Give the money to struggling mothers’: Bishop slams Spain’s pro-abortion campaign

  • Oct 2
  • Fionn Shiner

Pope Leo seeks status update of Francis’s divisive look at divorced and remarried Catholics

  • Oct 2
  • Nicole Winfield