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Home of the Legionaries of Christ in Cumming, Georgia, catches on fire after a lightening strike on the morning of Feb. 16, 2025.

Lightning strike sparks fire, destroys Legionaries of Christ home near Atlanta

Feb 17, 2025

The building, which housed four priests and three missionaries, is located on Woodsong Trail in Cumming, Georgia, about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta.

Concert at the Santa Maria dell'Olivo convent in Maciano, Italy, in July 2024.

Pope receives prisoners’ prayers for recovery while hospitalized in Rome

Feb 17, 2025

While hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis has received touching letters from inmates who were set to perform for him at a special concert.

Statues illuminated in ethereal blue light during the special evening access to St. Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee of Artists, Feb. 16, 2025.

At Vatican evening event, historic St. Peter’s bell ‘speaks’ through new sound installation

Feb 17, 2025

The work by American artist Bill Fontana transforms the resonances of the 9-ton bell into an immersive acoustic experience.

Crowds at a town hall meeting on immigration in Los Angeles, January 2014.

New UK immigration bill ‘punishes’ refugees, say Catholic bishops and Jesuit Refugee Service

Feb 17, 2025

The Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill is currently making its way through the U.K. Parliament and passed its second reading on Feb. 10.

Top row from left to right: Niña Ruiz Abad, Marcelo Henrique Câmara, Sister Cecilia María de la Santa Faz. Bottom row from left to right: Víctor Manuel Schiavoni, Chiara Badano, Rebeca Rocamora.

Meet 7 ‘Generation X’ Catholics on their way to sainthood

Feb 17, 2025

Several of these seven members of Generation X — born between 1965 and 1980 — are already beatified, while others are in the process of beatification.

Marriage researchers Brad Wilcox (right) and Margarite Mooney on the stage of a panel discussion titled "Why Have Children?" on Feb. 15, 2025, at the New York Encounter conference in New York City.

New York Encounter panel: Marriage matters ‘more than ever’ amid falling birth rates

Feb 16, 2025

Forecasts that 1 in 3 young adults in the U.S. today will never marry signify a closing of the “American heart,” a leading marriage researcher said Saturday.

Notorious former international pickpocket Víctor Sono Neira.

From international pickpocket to redemption: Víctor Sono’s story

Feb 16, 2025

Víctor Sono Neira spent years trapped in addiction and crime as an international pickpocket. Today, at the age of 72, he is a living testimony to God’s mercy and forgiveness.

Bishop Kevin Doran.

Irish bishop appointed to shepherd two dioceses

Feb 16, 2025

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kevin Doran to lead the Diocese of Achonry while continuing as bishop of Elphin.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Catholics hopeful on abortion, health policy after Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary

Feb 16, 2025

Kennedy, himself a professed Catholic, has faced intense scrutiny from both sides of the aisle for his controversial views on vaccines, abortion, and public health policy.

Left: Banners at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital. Right: Pope Francis waves from a wheelchair, Feb. 13, 2025.

Pope Francis spends peaceful second night at hospital, prays for peace at Angelus

Feb 16, 2025

Pope Francis spent a peaceful night and continued his treatment at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, still managing to share a prepared Angelus message.

A statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha.

Ecologists at center dedicated to St. Kateri help children integrate faith and nature

Feb 16, 2025

Through several different programs and a new book, the Saint Kateri Conservation Center is helping children and parishes to strengthen their relationships with God and creation.

Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça delivers Pope Francis’ homily at a Mass for the Jubilee of Artists in St. Peter’s Basilica, Feb. 16, 2025.

Pope Francis’ message to artists: Be witnesses to ‘revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes’

Feb 16, 2025

In a homily read by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, artists were urged to be “witnesses to the revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes.”

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