Archbishop Fernando Vérgez Alzaga

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The flag of Vatican City.

Who is going to be No. 2 in the Vatican City State administration?

Sep 28, 2021

By Andrea Gagliarducci

There are signs that it could be a layman. Read more

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Candles with Pope Francis’ image on them stand outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 21, 2025.

Pope Francis will be discharged from Gemelli Hospital on Sunday, Vatican says

Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

LIVE UPDATES: Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital, will recover at Casa Santa Marta

Auxiliary Bishop Nicholas Hudson with the lord mayor of Westminster, Robert Rigby, at Westminster Cathedral on Thursday, March 20, 2025.

Lord mayor of Westminster in London receives papal knighthood

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy in a March 20, 2025, interview on “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” shares how his family and Catholic faith have sustained him during his extraordinarily intense first months as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy reflects on first months of tenure and his faith

Genuflection before the Blessed Sacrament.

Cardinal Dolan explains why Catholics genuflect in church

A makeshift shrine with devotional candles, flowers, and images of Pope Francis appears outside Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 22, 2025.

Pope Francis to offer window blessing from Gemelli Hospital this Sunday

A previous class of St. Kateri Rosary Walk interns.

Young men reaffirm faith and friendship in Church-sponsored building project

Volunteers pray at a vigil at an abortion clinic in Ealing, West London, the site of the first “buffer zone” in the U.K. They are restricted by law from being closer than 500 meters (about 1,600 feet) to the clinic, more than the 150 meters (500 feet) imposed by the nationwide law in October 2024.

UK pro-life campaigners press ahead with prayer vigils as court verdict looms

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden.

South Dakota governor signs bill to keep men out of girls’ locker rooms, restrooms

Bishop Markus Büchel of the Diocese of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Swiss bishop issues call on podcast for ordination of women

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