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When R. Hasbani first planned to leave her home due to the latest hostilities in Borj el Moulouk, a Christian-majority village in southern Lebanon near Qlayaa, it was Father Pierre al-Rahi who urged her to stay. “At that moment, Father Pierre visited me, and he put his hands on my shoulders and he told me,…
Three Spanish policemen who were visiting Rome as tourists prevented a robbery at one of the city’s most iconic churches — the Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem — on March 21. The policemen — one of whom is stationed at the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See — were off duty when they…
More than 100 Chicago-area Catholic parents are appealing to the Vatican to keep open what one school mom describes as “the only Catholic option in the largest elementary school district in Illinois,” the pope’s home state. St. Hubert Catholic School in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates is one of seven Chicago archdiocesan Catholic schools closing at…
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $800,000 to a Christian photographer and blogger who won a religious freedom lawsuit over an antidiscrimination ordinance that would have required her to photograph same-sex weddings in spite of her religious objections. In October 2025, a federal court ruled that the ordinance contained two provisions that violated the…
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) took part in an ecumenical meeting with the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) to engage in dialogue and collaborate on pastoral solutions to heightened immigration enforcement. The meeting was held on March 24 to launch the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration (ECDI) — a joint initiative focused on the…
The Day of the Unborn Child is celebrated internationally on March 25 to commemorate, promote, and defend human life from the moment of conception in the mother’s womb until natural death. The date was established in Argentina in December 1998 by President Carlos Saúl Menem. A few days before the observance of this day in…
The Vatican announced that Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis. Sheen “is an inspiration not only to all of us who continue his work of prayer and support for the Church’s missionary work across the globe, but for all those whose faith has been strengthened by his preaching,…
Pope Leo XIV has called for renewed unity in the Church’s liturgical life, urging French bishops to seek “concrete solutions” to include Catholics attached to the Traditional Latin Mass while preserving communion. In a message sent through Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, to the French bishops’ spring plenary assembly in Lourdes (March 24–26),…
The federal government will proceed with plans to develop a copper mine at a Native American religious site, claiming the effort is “crucial” to meeting the “growing demand for critical minerals” in the U.S. Indigenous advocates of the Oak Flat site, meanwhile, are vowing to continue fighting against the effort to obliterate what they say…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Catholic bishops in Africa have released a final report addressing the pastoral challenge of polygamy across Africa. The 25-page document responds directly to the mandate that the multiyear XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the Synod on Synodality, gave to members of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa…
