Joseph Garcia

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Immigrants walking along a road near a border crossing in North America

Vice President Vance calls on the Church to apply immigration teaching with more nuance

October 23, 2026

A church facade floodlit in red during an Aid to the Church in Need Red Week event for persecuted Christians

Aid to the Church in Need to hold Red Week for persecuted Christians in November 2026

October 23, 2026

Cardinal Angelo Becciu in black clerical dress with red trim, seated beside his lawyer

Becciu's lawyers allege new interference as Rome prosecutors move to close Chaouqui case

October 22, 2026

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV will need no further cancer treatment, Vatican doctors say

October 22, 2026

Father Chad Ripperger, the Catholic exorcist asked by the Archdiocese of Denver to step back from public appearances

Denver archbishop asks exorcist Father Ripperger to step back from media for a year

October 21, 2026

Pope Leo XIV in white vestments greeting crowds during his visit to France

Pope Leo XIV draws 65 percent favorable rating in France, poll finds

October 21, 2026

Pope Leo XIV speaking on the telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about a humanitarian truce in Oleshky

Pope Leo XIV calls Zelensky to press for humanitarian truce in besieged Oleshky

October 20, 2026

Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, a Redemptorist priest of Perpetuo Socorro Church in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Priest in Ecuador dies during Mass after cross falls on him

October 19, 2026

Chris Pratt walking alone inside the illuminated St. Peter's Basilica in a scene from the documentary on the Apostle Peter

Chris Pratt narrates documentary on St. Peter, with a recorded appearance by Pope Leo XIV

October 16, 2026

President Donald Trump speaking at a microphone

Trump cancels live broadcast of Fort Hood gunman's execution after bishops object

October 16, 2026

A Catholic church interior in Galicia, Spain, where the Observatory for Religious Freedom has reported four desecrations

Four churches desecrated in three months in Spain's Galicia region, group says

October 15, 2026

A group of migrants waiting behind a metal fence near the US border

US bishops and evangelical leaders issue joint appeal on immigration policy

October 15, 2026

Pope Leo XIV, who spent his first night at the Gemelli hospital in Rome after lung surgery

Pope Leo XIV stable after surgery to remove lung tumor in Rome

October 14, 2026

Graphic accompanying coverage of opposition to the planned live broadcast of an execution

US cardinals and bishops condemn Pentagon plan to broadcast execution live

October 13, 2026

Pope Leo XIV in a white papal cassock

Pope Leo XIV undergoes surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital to remove lung nodule

October 13, 2026

Sister Mary Teresa Barron, newly appointed president of the Pontifical Mission Societies

Pope Leo XIV names Sister Mary Teresa Barron to lead Pontifical Mission Societies

October 9, 2026

Children at the Wassa camp for internally displaced people in Abuja, Nigeria

Priest says seven children died in a month at Nigerian displacement camp

October 9, 2026

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations

Vatican foreign minister Gallagher to visit Pakistan for 75th anniversary of ties

October 8, 2026

Bishops seated in rows at a plenary assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

US bishops to elect a new secretary and six committee chairmen in November

October 8, 2026

The medieval breviaries of St. Francis and St. Clare displayed in a case at the Porziuncola Museum in Assisi

Breviaries of St. Francis and St. Clare go on display together for the first time in Assisi

October 7, 2026