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Mary. Artist Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Museu da Casa Brasileira.

What is the ‘Queenship of Mary’ and why does it matter?

Aug 22, 2025

By Bishop Robert Barron

The Catholic Church annually celebrates the feast of the Queenship of Mary on Aug. 22. Read more

The Arabian Peninsula.

Vatican approves new patron saints for entire Arabian Peninsula

Aug 20, 2025

By Andrés Henríquez

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved a new calendar granting new patron saints... Read more

Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov's Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene (1835).

Here’s when Easter officially ends

Apr 4, 2024

By Katie Yoder

Easter lasts for a total of 50 days, from Easter Sunday until the feast of Pentecost. Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

Former Maronite priest still presenting himself as a cleric, Denver Archdiocese warns

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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1 in 4 post-abortive women regret abortion decades later, study finds

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

Did leak in England suggest broader shift in Vatican policy on the Latin Mass?

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross

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