1+ day, 45+ min ago   (300+ words) Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims and tourists at the Angelus on Sunday, 13 Sept. 2026 in the Vatican. (Image ©Vatican Media) The Chicago-born pope made his first public comments to commemorate the anniversary, speaking in English at the end of his…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1587+ words) The Harmony Hill campus is seen June 10, 2026, in Watertown, S.D. (Credit: Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch via AP.) Throughout their entire adult lives, the women of the Benedictine Sisters of Mother of God Monastery have served others as educators, health…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (187+ words) TEMASCALCINGO, Mexico — Pyrotechnic material exploded during the festival for a patron saint in a town in Mexico State, collapsing a wall, killing at least 10 people and injuring another 64, Mexican authorities said. The explosion occurred Saturday night next to the Nuestra…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (438+ words) Lisbon Patriarch Rui Valério and other officials attend the inauguration of a memorial to the 16 people killed in the derailment and crash of Lisbon’s Glória funicular, an iconic streetcar, on the first anniversary of the accident, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Credit: Armando…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (829+ words) Sanctuary of Torreciudad. Credit: By Millars – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Opus Dei have responded to a bishop’s incendiary comments, which opened the latest chapter in a long-running dispute between the personal prelature and the local diocese, over a revered…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (758+ words) Iglesia del Santuario de Torreciudad. Credit: José Luis Filpo Cabana/Wikimedia. A Spanish bishop has reignited a longstanding dispute with Opus Dei over a Marian image, saying that he will resign if the revered icon is not returned to its…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (770+ words) HONG KONG — A Chinese lawyer who defended a prominent underground church in Beijing fled to Taiwan and is seeking help for resettlement, following mounting pressure from Chinese authorities on her firm and her colleagues. Ruth Wang, partner at VDoor Law…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (658+ words) Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday that if a 2024 assassination attempt had killed Donald Trump, he would have always wondered if it was part of a conspiracy and might not have accepted even another Republican as…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (490+ words) Rescue teams continued their increasingly frantic work to locate survivors in the wake of catastrophic flash flooding at the Nepal-China border last week, as the death toll climbed above a thousand and the number of missing reached nearly four thousand....

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (986+ words) Nigeria’s Catholic Bishops have condemned the mass kidnapping of over 60 Muslims during Friday prayers earlier this month, calling the escalating violence across the country an “unabated trail of blood and terror.” Gunmen stormed the Kpenya Mosque in the Borgu Local…...