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Virginia Catholics praise dismissal of assisted suicide by state legislature

Nov 15, 2018

Virginia Catholics are praising the decision of a joint commission of the state legislature to take no action on a... Read more

Bishops pray for Catholic Congressman shot at baseball practice

Jun 14, 2017

By Mary Farrow

Republican House Majority Whip and Catholic Steve Scalise, 51, was among multiple persons shot in an incident at a Congressional... Read more

Death penalty.

Virginia bishops: Death penalty won't heal a broken world

Jan 22, 2017

For two Catholic bishops in Virginia, the execution of a man convicted of brutally killing a family of four was... Read more

Bishop David Talley, who was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria Sept. 21, 2016.

Former Southern Baptist to become next head of Louisiana diocese

Sep 21, 2016

By Hannah Brockhaus

The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop David Prescott Talley, currently auxiliary bishop of Atlanta and a... Read more

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Brian Burch’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See was blocked by Senate Democrats on May 13, 2025.

Senate Democrats block U.S. Vatican ambassador confirmation: What’s next?

Vice President JD Vance speaks at a film-screening event April 1, 2025, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

JD Vance, Marco Rubio to attend Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass at the Vatican

Pope Leo XIV meets with the Brothers of the Christian Schools on May 15, 2025, at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV laments that today’s youth have to deal with ‘relativism’ and ‘superficiality’

Meetings took place this week between the head of the transitional phase in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and U.S. President Donald Trump, in the presence of the Saudi Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh.

U.S. lifts sanctions on Syria, renewing hope for Christians and boosting national economy

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, with Sister Mary Bosco of the Sisters of Mercy, a 100-year-old Irish nun who taught him to “love and serve the Lord.”

Cardinal Dolan visits 100-year-old nun who taught him to ‘love and serve the Lord’

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. orders review of abortion pill

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd gathered on St. Peter’ s Square for the Regina Coeli on Sunday, May 11, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV can accelerate ‘Leonine revolution’ in the Church, theologian says

Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing during a meeting with participants in the Jubilee of Eastern Churches on May 14, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.

All the saints and Church Fathers Pope Leo XIV quoted in his first week

The Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville petition calls for release of Catholic man arrested by immigration officers

Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White reads the thesis of then-Father Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, titled “The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of St. Augustine,” which Prevost wrote while a student at Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in the early 1980s.

Future Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral thesis offers clues to his pontificate 

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