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Pope Leo tells faithful in St. Peter’s Square he will gradually resume duties after cancer surgery

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University of San Francisco basketball player Bill Russell is carried from the floor of the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., by students celebrating a win over La Salle for the NCAA basketball championship, March 19, 1955. (Credit: Bill Streator/AP.)

From March Madness miracles to a season opener in Rome: The story of Catholic college hoops

Oct 16
David Crary

This undated photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows former Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan. (Credit: Bell County Sheriff's Department via AP.)

Trump, after bipartisan and Catholic backlash, says Pentagon won’t livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter

Oct 16
Seung Min Kim

A pedestrian walks past Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago’s calls for prayers, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, for Pope Leo XIV after his lung cancer diagnosis. (Credit: Nam Y. Huh/AP.)

Chicago Catholics rally for prayer in Pope Leo’s hometown after his lung cancer diagnosis

Oct 15
Laura Bargfeld,
Luis Andres Henao

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV’s brother reveals that he also has cancer

Oct 14
Crux Now Staff

Adam Kowalewicz holds a photo of his slain sister, Gloria, as he displays family photos during an interview with the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 9, 2026. (Credit: Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP.)

Chicago police say DNA ties a former detective to decades-old unsolved killing of 8-year-old girl on her way to Mass

Oct 14
Cybele Mayes-Osterman

Military Services Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks during a press conference at a plenary assembly in Baltimore on Nov. 11, 2025. (Credit: Stephanie Scarbrough/AP.)

Archbishop of the U.S. military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad

Oct 13
Associated Press

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Federal judge rejects the Oakland Diocese’s bankruptcy plan

Oct 13
Azucena Rasilla /The Oaklandside

Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment storm the grounds of the Soldier Readiness Center to apprehend a mass shooter in Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009. (Credit: David Morris/Killeen Daily Herald via AP/AP.)

A botched execution and plans for one in public show the US is conflicted about capital punishment

Oct 10
John Hanna,
Deepa Bharath, Sarah Rankin

Vice President JD Vance speaks to members of the media at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 in Hebron, Ky., as he departs for a rally in Lima, Ohio. (Credit: Samuel Corum/Pool Photo via AP.)

Catholic VP Vance expresses doubts about Pentagon plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter’s execution

Oct 10
Julie Carr Smyth,
Michelle L. Price

A sculpture of an angel stands at a memorial for survivors and lives lost to suicide dedicated by the Archdiocese of Chicago at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Hillside, Ill., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Credit: Luis Andres Henao/AP.)

First suicide memorial by a US archdiocese signals a compassionate shift by the Catholic Church

Oct 9
Luis Andres Henao