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Monastery makeover: Nuns leave lasting legacy of service in Watertown, South Dakota
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1587+ words) Watertown, S.D. (Credit: Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch via AP.) Throughout their entire adult lives,...
Vance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast
1+ week, 3+ 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…...
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…...
‘Preventing children from going to school is diabolical,’ says papal representative in Cameroon
5+ day, 15+ 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,…...
On liturgy, Leo XIV sheds light (and knows it will bring a little heat)
1+ week, 6+ day ago (157+ words) traditional custom, during one of the Catholic parish’s Latin Masses in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, June...
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…...
A Message from Elise Ann Allen
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (571+ words) Journalist and papal biographer Elise Ann Allen. (Image courtesy of author) Many regular Crux readers will know that this has been a year of transition for the company, and for me personally, following the death of my husband, Crux’s president…...
Irish baptisms fall by 30% over ten years
3+ week, 4+ day ago (595+ words) Notice board of St. Mary’s pro-Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. Image credit: By Cograng – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link New research has found that annual baptisms have fallen by 30% over the last ten years in Ireland. A briefing note from the Iona…...
Jerusalem Patriarch visits Taybeh, calls for protection of Christian presence
3+ week, 2+ day ago (712+ words) Taybeh, a town in the West Bank. (Credit: Wikimedia.) During a recent visit to Palestine’s last remaining entirely Christian village, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem called for the Christian presence in the village to be preserved. Located in the central…...
Editor’s Note: A fond farewell to a dear colleague
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (335+ words) There’s some bittersweet news for the Crux Now family this week. Our colleague and friend,...her successor in Rome before too long. About the news service of which she has been an integral part for...his life to the project:…...