Install
Crux offers the very best in smart, wired, and independent coverage of the Vatican and the Catholic Church.
- 63articles · 30d
- 2+ day agolatest article
- Aug 14, 2026earliest in window
- 49%with images
- 316avg words
- REL 36
- Sensitive Subjects 31
- Religion 30
- People & Society 18
- Politics 14
- Disaster, Accident & Emergency Incident 13
- Conflict, War & Peace 8
- News 7
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Monastery makeover: Nuns leave lasting legacy of service in Watertown, South Dakota
2+ day, 17+ 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…...
30 years after her death, Gilda embodies Argentina’s enduring faith in folk saints
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (635+ words) A man prays at a sanctuary dedicated to late Argentine singer Gilda on the 30th anniversary of her death in a bus crash, in Entre Rios, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Natacha Pisarenko/AP.) CEIBAS, Argentina — Thirty years ago this Monday, Argentina…...
‘Preventing children from going to school is diabolical,’ says papal representative in Cameroon
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (835+ words) Students listen to the teacher in the Holy Infant high school, in Yaounde, Cameron, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (Credit: Angel Ngwe/AP.) YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – At the start of the 2026/2027 academic year in Cameroon, the Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon, Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt,…...
Opus Dei responds to bishop’s ‘offensive and unfounded accusation’ in dispute over Marian image
1+ week, 2+ 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…...
Spanish bishop renews dispute with Opus Dei over Marian image
1+ week, 2+ 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…...
Nigerian Bishops decry ‘trail of terror’ after latest attacks
1+ week, 6+ day 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…...
On liturgy, Leo XIV sheds light (and knows it will bring a little heat)
1+ week, 6+ day ago (157+ words) Father John Ubel, pastor of the Church of Saint Agnes, celebrates the eucharistic prayer facing the altar, in the traditional custom, during one of the Catholic parish’s Latin Masses in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, June 28, 2026. (Credit: Giovanna Dell’Orto/AP.) Pope…...
For everything from troubled hearts to lost keys, Greeks bake cakes for a wish-granting saint
2+ week, 2+ day ago (726+ words) Father Nikolaos Vlavianos stands beside an icon of Saint Fanourios, known in Greek as “The Revealer,” at the Church of St. Fanourios in Athens, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Credit: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP.) ILION, Greece — For the careless and despairing alike, there’s a…...
Reporter spends the night locked inside Jerusalem’s holiest church with clergy and pilgrims
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1070+ words) Christian Orthodox pilgrims hold up candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP.) JERUSALEM — The enormous doors were pushed shut, the clanking bolts…...
Pope prays for victims of mining disaster in CAR
2+ week, 6+ day ago (554+ words) Pope Leo XIV at the Angelus on Sunday, 23 August 2026. (Image ©Vatican Media) Pope Leo XIV offered prayers on Sunday for the victims of a deadly mining accident in the Central African Republic. “I am also close to the people of…...