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Cardinal George Pell gives an interview to EWTN News in Rome, Italy, on Dec. 9, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Prosecutors drop charges against journalists over Pell trial as media outlets admit breach

Feb 1, 2021

Australian prosecutors announced on Monday that they were dropping charges against individual journalists accused of breaching a gag order over the... Read more

Cardinal George Pell.

Three dozen journalists and media companies indicted over Pell trial gag order

Apr 15, 2019

More than twenty journalists in Australia faced court charges Monday over breach of a court gag order in the case... Read more

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Nicaraguan bishop criticizes arrest of journalists

Dec 24, 2018

The Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio José Báez, has criticized the shut down of the 100% Noticias television channel and... Read more

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Nancy Pelosi criticizes the U.S. Catholic bishops during Georgetown panel discussion

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Catholics urged to be generous to Good Friday collection to benefit the Holy Land

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Spanish bishop criticizes Constitutional Court for upholding euthanasia law

Pope Francis reads the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Peter’s Basilica, March 25, 2022.

Pope Francis asked Catholics to renew Marian consecration every March 25. Here’s what that means

A memorial Mass for the late Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was held at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Hacienda Heights, California, on March 1, 2023.

Housekeeper’s husband pleads not guilty to murder of Bishop David O’Connell

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Texas bishops support plan to give families tuition credits to spend on private or parochial schools

Father Esquibel (Daniel Zovatto) and Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe) in Screen Gems’ The Pope's Exorcist.

Here’s what real exorcists are saying about Russell Crowe’s Vatican exorcist movie

Members of the Ulma family at their home and farm. On March 24, 1944, all nine members of the Ulma family were killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family in their home in Poland, including a child still in the womb.

On this day in 1944 the Ulma family was martyred by the Nazis

Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government.

Exiles describe Nicaragua regime’s ‘unholy war against the Catholic Church’ at congressional hearing

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Priest stripped of faculty to hear confessions after he advocated violating that sacrament in sex abuse cases

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Father Esquibel (Daniel Zovatto) and Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe) in Screen Gems’ The Pope's Exorcist.

Here’s what real exorcists are saying about Russell Crowe’s Vatican exorcist movie

Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government.

Exiles describe Nicaragua regime’s ‘unholy war against the Catholic Church’ at congressional hearing

Pope Francis reads the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Peter’s Basilica, March 25, 2022.

Pope Francis asked Catholics to renew Marian consecration every March 25. Here’s what that means

Members of the Ulma family at their home and farm. On March 24, 1944, all nine members of the Ulma family were killed by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family in their home in Poland, including a child still in the womb.

On this day in 1944 the Ulma family was martyred by the Nazis

A memorial Mass for the late Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was held at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Hacienda Heights, California, on March 1, 2023.

Housekeeper’s husband pleads not guilty to murder of Bishop David O’Connell