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Wild West nun Sister Blandina is focus of a planned TV series titled "Trinidad."

Wild West nun Sister Blandina is focus of planned TV series ‘Trinidad’

Apr 8, 2023

By Kevin J. Jones

A trailer for the “Trinidad” series describes Sister Blandina Segale as “an unsung hero of the West who never carried... Read more

Representation of the Salem witch trials, lithograph from 1892.

Was the last 'witch' of Boston actually a Catholic martyr?

Oct 29, 2017

By Mary Farrow

The last person hanged for witchcraft in Boston could be considered a Catholic martyr.  Read more

Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Denver, Colorado.

Anti-Catholic history in US shows Church has survived and will continue, historian says

Jul 1, 2015

By Matt Hadro

As bishops warn of current threats to religious liberty in the United States, Catholics can take heart that such challenges... Read more

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Pope Francis at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 17, 2023.

Pope Francis making normal progress in recovery from abdominal surgery

The Mexican platform Actívate (Get Active) delivered 10,400 signatures to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) on June 6, 2023.

Petition in Mexico demands religious freedom, protection of priests and churches

Father James Jackson, FSSP, delivers the homily at the funeral Mass for slain Boulder police officer Eric Talley on March 29, 2021, at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colorado

Father James Jackson pleads guilty in child pornography case

An Arlington, Texas, police car.

Fort Worth Diocese releases photos allegedly showing drug use at Carmelite monastery

Father Leandro NaunHung.

Parents of priest in Cuba attacked with machetes in home invasion

A photograph shows an outside view of the Gemelli hospital in Rome on June 8, 2023, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized following an operation for an abdominal hernia on June 7.

Pope Francis stable, receives poster from family of baby he baptized in hospital in March

Pro-life protesters outsider the Belfast High Court as Northern Ireland abortion laws were being challenged in Belfast, U.K., Oct. 3, 2019.

Catholic bishop condemns abortion curriculum in Northern Ireland’s schools

Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents’ authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework.

Muslim-led parents’ group protests LGBT curriculum mandate in Maryland school system

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Congress must act against online child exploitation, U.S. bishops say

A large statue of St. John Paul II at the entrance of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is recovering from surgery he underwent on June 7, 2023.

Pope Francis is recovering in same hospital room where John Paul II was treated

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Father James Jackson, FSSP, delivers the homily at the funeral Mass for slain Boulder police officer Eric Talley on March 29, 2021, at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colorado

Father James Jackson pleads guilty in child pornography case

An Arlington, Texas, police car.

Fort Worth Diocese releases photos allegedly showing drug use at Carmelite monastery

Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents’ authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework.

Muslim-led parents’ group protests LGBT curriculum mandate in Maryland school system

Father Leandro NaunHung.

Parents of priest in Cuba attacked with machetes in home invasion

A photograph shows an outside view of the Gemelli hospital in Rome on June 8, 2023, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized following an operation for an abdominal hernia on June 7.

Pope Francis stable, receives poster from family of baby he baptized in hospital in March