After a year in which 8 million Christians faced persecution, activists with the Netherlands-based Open Door network released ...

John L. Allen Jr., the fastidious American journalist who demystified Vatican affairs for English speakers for decades, died ...

Quietly and generously, John was also a mentor. He never wanted replicas of himself. He wanted better journalists -- and ...

It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking," said Leo.

Covering the Vatican, he had a front-row seat to the waning years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate and the election of Pope ...

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The president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has described the first official audience between Pope Leo XIV and the leadership of the Church in Africa as a ...

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John Allen Jr., a longtime Vaticanista and editor in chief of the Catholic publication Crux, died Jan. 22, 2026, at age 61.

COMMENTARY: Why bother fact-checking when the facts, if ascertained, might get in the way of a good trigger-warning or a slap ...

It is customary that, in the first months after the election of a new pope, comparisons between the successor and predecessor ...