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Vatican outlines steps for SSPX priests, laypeople to return to Catholic communion

by Vatican News

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has established a procedure for both priests and lay faithful connected to the Society of …

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U.S. Church

Catholic hikes up Massachusetts mountain carrying 130-pound cross to honor Christ

by Bill Doyle | The Catholic Free Press

“Noah took the cross all the way to the summit, which was a beautiful witness to all the people who were just on the mountain for exercise.”

Vance calls the Vatican’s views on immigration ‘troubling’

Prayer key to sister’s release from ICE detention, but foreign-born religious now on edge

Catholics must bring Christ to center of border issues, says priest at border Mass

Supreme Court takes up case over state, local bans on semiautomatic rifles

Trial begins in California’s lawsuit against pregnancy resource centers’ abortion pill reversal resources

World

Abuse victims reach $31.5 million joint settlement with Quebec Archdiocese, 2 institutions, insurer

by Francois Gloutnay

With the Quebec settlement agreement, eight of 18 Latin-rite dioceses in Quebec have now settled, in whole or in part, the collective actions targeting them.

Benedictines launch global jubilee initiative ahead of 1,500th anniversary
Pope Leo XIV calls for solidarity, prayers after deadly Venezuela quakes
UK bishops ‘distressed’ after Northampton prelate charged with rape
Archbishop calls for prayer, solidarity after twin earthquakes devastate Venezuela
Germany: Vatican denies request for lay homilies, sparks pushback by lay groups

Sudanese priest who chose to remain with his people shot dead in broad daylight

Pakistan Catholics counter persecution with hope, says bishops’ human rights director

French bishops launch prayer novena ahead of key ‘assisted-dying’ vote

Vatican

Pope Leo overhauls Vatican finance watchdog, revises Rome vicariate reforms in busy day of decrees

by Courtney Mares

Opinion

The fate of Haitian migrants lies with the Senate

by Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski

The human error

by Katie Yoder

In Spain, Pope Leo XIV shared a message of human dignity for all of Europe

by Ines San Martin

Reviews

Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ to return to theaters

by John Mulderig
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