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Traditionalist Fraternity Consecrates Four Bishops in Defiance of Rome

The Vatican says the unauthorized ceremony threatens automatic excommunication and puts the Fraternity’s sacramental ties to Rome at risk.

Vatican Rejects German Bid to Let Laypeople, Including Women, Deliver Homilies

Cardinal Camillo Ruini Dies as Pope Leo XIV Will Preside at His Funeral

France Sets Record for Easter Baptisms at Over 21,000

Pope Names Heiner Wilmer Bishop of Münster

Heiner Wilmer Elected to Lead Germany’s Catholic Bishops

Ronald Hicks Installed as New York’s 11th Archbishop at St. Patrick’s

Germany’s Catholic Bishops to Choose New Leader as Bätzing Declines Second Term

Pope Leão XIV Sets June Follow-Up Consistory, Signals Shared Governance

Pope Leo XIV Convenes Jan. 7–8 Consistory To Seek Cardinals' Counsel

Pope Leo XIV Names Richard Moth Archbishop of Westminster

Pope Leo XIV Names Ronald Hicks Archbishop of New York in Swift Move Replacing Dolan

Pope Leo XIV Names Joliet’s Ronald Hicks Archbishop of New York

São Paulo Archdiocese Halts Padre Júlio Lancellotti’s Livestreamed Masses, Orders Social-Media Pause

Goldenstein Nuns Ask Vatican to Remove Appointed Provost

In Assisi, Pope Leone XIV Sets 75 Retirement Rule Enforcement, Pushes Diocesan Mergers

Vatican Canonizes Bartolo Longo, Once Tied to the Occult

Pope Leo XIV Turns 70 as Quiet Early Pontificate Takes Shape

Cardinal Estanislao Karlic Dies at 99 in Paraná

Robert Francis Prevost Becomes Pope Leo XIV, First American Pontiff