After skipping installation, New York mayor meets Archbishop Hicks — By: Catholic News Agency

Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke a long-standing New York tradition when he missed the Feb. 6 installation Mass for Archbishop Ronald Hicks at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and met with the archbishop four days later. Joseph Zwilling, director of communications for the Archdiocese of New York, told EWTN News that “the mayor and the archbishop were together…

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Pew report finds Christians are often largest group in the world’s most religiously diverse places — By: Catholic News Agency

The Pew Research Center released a report examining the most and least religiously diverse countries and territories across the globe. The Feb. 12 report found that the United States is not among the 10 most religiously diverse countries in the world, but when examining only the 10 most populous nations, the U.S. ranks first in…

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Replica of Manila’s famed ‘Black Nazarene’ arrives in Los Angeles Archdiocese — By: Catholic News Agency

The centuries-old devotion to Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno of Quiapo, Manila, in the Philippines has formally reached the U.S. West Coast as an official replica of the revered image was turned over to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and entrusted to Holy Family Parish in Artesia and the archdiocese’s Filipino ministry. The replica, gifted by…

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