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The dramatic history of the compound next to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva includes papal conclaves and the Inquisition interrogation of Galileo Galilei.

U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell said that restrictions on the religious freedom of clergy to minister to detainees constitutes "irreparable harm."

Protestant and Catholic clergy are asking a federal judge to order that they be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota.

The Christian rhetoric of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken on new meaning after the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran, an Islamic theocracy.

The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete, but a group of Apache women is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene as a last-ditch effort to stop the project.

Latino leaders and community groups quickly condemned the alleged abuse by Chavez but emphasized that the farmworker movement was never just about a single man. 

An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday.

The Vatican released on Monday details of Pope Leo XIV's upcoming four-nation Africa tour, suggesting Christian-Muslim relations, comforting victims of violence and encouraging the Catholic community in former European colonies will be key themes.

Pope Leo XIV demanded a ceasefire in the Middle East on Sunday in his strongest comments to date, directly addressing the leaders who launched the war in Iran.

The move and the consolidation of Leo's team suggest a new chapter is opening as his pontificate nears the one-year mark.

An early donor to the political career of Vice President JD Vance, Peter Thiel is also deeply interested in the apocalyptic concept of the Antichrist and has written and lectured on it before.

The bishop of a small Chaldean Catholic community in the San Diego area has resigned amid charges that he embezzled $270,000 from his parish, Pope Leo XIV announced Tuesday.

The patriarch of one of the most important Christian churches in the Middle East retired on Tuesday, setting the stage for new leadership as war engulfs the region.

The long-held practice of faith leaders ministering to detained migrants has become far more contentious — and consequential — as detention numbers soar across the United States during the federal government's immigration crackdown.

"It's justice denied for more than 60 years for some people," Claude Leboeuf said. "These are people who brought their complaints to the diocese as kids in the 1960s, and they were ignored, ridiculed, even punished."

Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual abuse largely due to a system where bishops prioritized minimizing scandal as the diocese maintained a secret archive to conceal the revelation of more victims.

One expert said that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes' case reflects not so much a traditional Christian religious fervor, but rather a "popular religiousness, a religiousness of the immediate, of everyday life."

Two American cardinals and the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government's immigration crackdown, but they urged everyone to repair strained relations and work together toward humane solutions.

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi went on public display for the first time Sunday, capping an 800-year saga over his bodily remains and confirming the enduring appeal to Christians of venerating a saint's relics.

 A prayer verse is included at the base of the cross installed Feb. 20. It reads: "You alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High."