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President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Conservative Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission ousted in dispute over antisemitism

  • Feb 12
  • Peter Smith, 
    Associated Press
This photo provided by Kelvin Worthey Jr. shows Christian rapper Childlike CiCi performing on Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Kelvin Worthey Jr./Kashvision Multimedia & Broadcasting LLC via AP.)

Emerging artists making rap, Afrobeats and R&B music push Christian genre boundaries

  • Feb 11
  • Charlotte Kramon, 
    Associated Press
President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Senior U.S. Church leaders call for presidential apology in wake of racist social media post

  • Feb 10
  • Christopher R. Altieri

Abp Lori issues pastoral letter on renewal of U.S. political culture

  • Feb 10
  • Crux Staff
This Oct. 26, 1966 file photo shows Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in his office at the Propagation of Faith in New York. (Credit: Eddie Adams/AP.)

Vatican again OKs Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatification after 2019 ceremony derailed at last minute

  • Feb 9
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Associated Press
New York Archbishop-designate Ronald A. Hicks, who is taking over from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, leaves after his Installation Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the Manhattan borough of New York on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (Credit: Angelina Katsanis/ Pool Reuters via AP.)

New Catholic archbishop of New York wants a church that ‘shows respect for all’ and builds unity

  • Feb 7
  • Dave Collins, 
    Associated Press
Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks talks to reporters during a news conference at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (Credit: Seth Wenig/AP.)

New York’s incoming archbishop will focus on evangelizing and reengagement

  • Feb 6
  • Bruce Shipkowski, 
    Associated Press
A protester holds a sign reading "Love thy neighbor - Jesus" during a rally against federal immigration enforcement on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Credit: Angelina Katsanis/AP.)

Protests inside churches are unusual despite long history of civil disobedience in the US

  • Jan 25
  • Peter Smith, 
    Tiffany Stanley, Associated Press
Vice President JD Vance speaks at a rally ahead of the March for Life in Washington, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Credit: Stephanie Scarbrough/AP.)

Vance touts the Trump administration’s record against abortion at a Washington rally

  • Jan 24
  • Meg Kinnard
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
  • Associated Press

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Vatican extends olive branch to breakaway SSPX society

  • Feb 12
  • Elise Ann Allen

US will send troops to Nigeria to train the military to fight extremism

  • Feb 12
  • Associated Press

Bernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter’s Basilica

  • Feb 12
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Associated Press

Conservative Catholic member of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission ousted in dispute over antisemitism

  • Feb 12
  • Peter Smith, 
    Associated Press