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Pages from the U.S. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline website are arranged for a photograph in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (Credit{ Patrick Sison/AP.)

Assisted suicide increases rates of non-medical suicide, statistics show

  • Feb 25
  • Charles Collins
Childhood photos of a woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, are displayed along with a picture of her father, a WWII Air Force veteran, at left, and additional family photos, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. (Credit: David Goldman/AP.)

She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran and became Christian. The Trump administration wants to deport her

  • Feb 22
  • Claire Galofaro, 
    Associated Press
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (Credit: John Bazemore/AP.)

Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms to take effect

  • Feb 21
  • Hannah Schoenbaum, 
    Rebecca Boone, Associated Press
Gold crosses and statues adorn confessional rooms at St. Michael Archangel Catholic Church in Houston, on April 13, 2019. (Credit: Wong Maye-E/AP.)

Catholics return to confession focused on grace, not a get-out-of-hell-free card

  • Feb 19
  • Giovanna Dell'Orto, 
    Associated Press
A cross is silhouetted against a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans on Dec. 1, 2012. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

A look at the largest clergy abuse settlements reached by Catholic organizations in the US

  • Feb 19
  • Associated Press

Diocese of Camden, NJ reaches $180 million abuse settlement

  • Feb 18
  • Crux Staff
Attendees participate in the annual Krewe of Muses parade during the Mardi Gras season on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in New Orleans. (Credit: Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP.)

New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras, the indulgent conclusion of Carnival season

  • Feb 18
  • Sara Cline, 
    Associated Press

New US policy on AI threatens industry disruption, puts US at loggerheads with Holy See

  • Feb 17
  • Christopher R. Altieri
Catholics pray the rosary while a priest marks people’s foreheads with ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Church of the Divine Child in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (Credit: Fernando Vergara/AP.)

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a period of fasting, reflection — and fish fries

  • Feb 16
  • Peter Smith, 
    Associated Press
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

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Holy See renews call for moratorium on AI weapons-development

  • Feb 26
  • Christopher R. Altieri

Vatican official tells UN so-called ‘new rights’ can attack religious freedom

  • Feb 26
  • Crux Staff

A ‘chatbot’ can’t replace angels, Bishop Varden tells Pope Leo, Roman Curia

  • Feb 26
  • Charles Collins

Daniela Petroff, AP’s longtime Vatican reporter, dies at 80

  • Feb 26
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