On the morning of May 2, 2025, supporters of Washington Senate Bill 5375 were ushered through the massive concrete arches and up the grand staircases of the Washington state Capitol — the veins of Alaskan Tokeen marble guiding them past oil portraits and century-old busts — to the governor’s conference …
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On May 8, the Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost, as its first North American leader. The planet and the people are in desperate need of moral healing, and there are promising signs that Pope Leo XIV just may be the voice of clarity that we need. I am a …
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Vice President J.D. Vance attacked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which came out against some executive orders signed by President Donald Trump, including ones that would allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter churches and schools. Vance accused the church of helping immigrants to help “their bottom line.” Archbishop …
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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who alleged they were sexually abused as children by priests and other clergy. The settlement brings the total payout by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to settle sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion. In …
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In an excerpt from his new book OPUS: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church, author Gareth Gore examines the ties binding Supreme Court kingmaker Leonard Leo and Opus Dei, a radical organization on the fringes of the Catholic Church that is accused …
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Sabrina Carpenter believes that if Jesus Christ came back right now, he’d be a “Feather” stan, too. Carpenter accidentally found herself at odds with the Catholic Church after the Diocese of Brooklyn claimed it was “appalled” with the “violent and sexually provocative” music video shot inside the Blessed Virgin Mary …
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In 2011, Victoria Crisitello took a part-time job at St.Theresa School, a Catholic school in Kenilworth, New Jersey —the same school she attended as a child. Three years later, the school’s principal approached Crisitello about a full-time job teaching art to elementary school students. If she were to take the …
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Almost 10 years after he retired due to health problems, the former Pope Benedict XVI, who served as the head of the Catholic Church from 2005 until 2013, when he became the first pope in six centuries to step down, has died. He was 95. “With sorrow I inform you …
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Shia LaBeouf was so inspired by the subject of his latest film project that it spurred the actor to convert to Catholicism. The scandal-ridden 36-year-old, who was raised Jewish, is set to portray Catholic saint Padre Pio — a 20th Century Franciscan Capuchin friar and mystic alleged to have the …
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