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As the Catholic Church gears up for its 2025 jubilee, the Vatican has unveiled a new cartoon mascot to represent its upcoming holy year: an anime figure named Luce. According to the church, Luce is meant to engage with “the pop culture so…

Decapitated statues of Mary are not uncommon in European nations culturally enriched by Muslim migration. So the July 1 beheading of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (aka Mariendom) in Linz, Austria, was a…

Carlo Acutis, a devout 15-year-old who died of leukemia in 2006 and has been nicknamed “God’s influencer” for his popular database cataloging Eucharistic miracles, has been officially recognized by Pope Francis as a saint, becoming the…

Pope Francis’ coy two-step on sexual mores hangs over Catholic culture like the sword of Damocles. Papal ambiguity weakens the Catholic Radio Association’s current effort to resist newly mandated reporting rules about workforce diversity.…

Pope Francis has apologized for using a derogatory term about gay men in a discussion with Italian bishops during which he reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests, a policy that stands at odds with previous statements that there…

VATICAN—Their excitement reaching a fever pitch as they awaited the supreme pontiff’s appearance for a papal audience, a wild St. Peter’s Basilica crowd grew increasingly fired up Wednesday as they tossed around inflatable crucifixes, Holy…

VATICAN CITY—Stressing that His good moods never tended to last long, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics on Thursday to ask for what they wanted now while God Almighty, Our Lord and Heavenly Father, was in high spirits. “Whether you’re…

VATICAN CITY—In an effort to make the church feel fresh and exciting again for youths around the world, the Roman Catholic Church announced Friday that it had added belief in a badass deity with a robotic falcon head to its existing dogmas.…

VATICAN CITY—Appearing at the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the same vestments he’d worn the day before, a hungover Pope Francis reportedly played a Bible-themed movie Thursday during morning mass. “All right, so today for church we’re…

Like many Americans, Craig Hendricks was beginning to feel unsafe - both in public, and even in his own home. That’s when he decided to buy a firearm for self-defense. Today, Hendricks shares why he believes owning a gun may be the only way…