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Pope Francis leads the vespers in the Roman Basilica of St. Paul Outside The Walls where the tomb of the Evangelist was built, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, on the day the Catholic Church celebrates St. Paul's conversion. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Catholic Church’s confusing LGBTQ approach

By Tim Constantine

Believers and clergy attend a mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Saint Magdalena church in Altoetting, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Andreas Schaad)

Benedict remembered as humble scholar, not ‘God’s Rottweiler’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves the chamber as the final votes of the 117th Congress are cast for the $1.7 trillion spending bill that finances federal agencies and provides aid to Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 23, 2022. Pelosi is stepping aside from her top leadership role in the new Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pelosi mourns Pope Benedict XVI’s death

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A person signs a book of condolence for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Saint Magdalena church in Altoetting, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Andreas Schaad)

Biden, lawmakers join in commemorating Pope Benedict XVI’s legacy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Pope John XXIII waves a hand in blessing at Roman Catholic Ecumenical Council at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Oct. 11, 1962. Pope Francis commemorates the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by celebrating a Mass in honor of St. John XXIII, the “good pope” who convened the landmark meetings that modernized the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Raoul Fornezza, File)

Vatican II impact still felt 60 years later as generation that participated passes

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope John XXIII stands and prays in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, on Oct. 12, 1962, during a special audience for delegates from foreign governments to the ecumenical council. Pope Francis commemorates the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by celebrating a Mass in honor of St. John XXIII, the “good pope” who convened the landmark meetings that modernized the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/File)

Pope Francis marks 60th anniversary of Second Vatican Council

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Cardinals attend a mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican for the newly-created cardinals, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, that concludes a two-day consistory on the Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel) apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia which was promulgated in March. Francis created 20 new cardinals on Saturday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope meets with cardinals on future direction of church

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Faithful take part in a procession in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The Catholic Church has called on the faithful to peacefully arrive at the Cathedral in Managua Saturday after National Police denied permission for a planned religious procession on “internal security” grounds. (AP Photo)

Nicaraguans celebrate Mass peacefully after procession ban

By Gabriela Selser - Associated Press

Pope Francis, left, wears a traditional headdress he was given after his apology to Indigenous people during a ceremony in Maskwacis, Alberta, as part of his papal visit across Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country's Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada

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A woman walks by Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, on April 10, 2020. Pope Francis arrives in Quebec on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing secularization long after their forebears built their identify on the rock of the Catholic Church. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Pope in Quebec amid decline of Catholic Church in province

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Pope Francis is wheeled beside Indigenous chiefs after visiting the Ermineskin Cree Nation Cemetery in Maskwacis, Alberta, during his papal visit across Canada on Monday, July 25, 2022. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada

By Nicole Winfield and Peter Smith - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, July, 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican names 3 women to office that vets bishop nominations

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The Rev. Samuel Giese, pastor of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda, Md., said Monday that vandals left no explanation for desecrating the sanctuary.

Pastors say Roe a likely factor in vandalism at three Bethesda churches

By Sean Salai and Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Fire trucks outside of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda early Sunday morning. A vandalism/arson attack at the congregation is believed to have caused $50,000 in damage. (CREDIT: Montgomery Country Fire & Rescue Service via Twitter)

Three Montgomery County churches vandalized, torched in possible bias incident

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

President Truman's envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor, left, has an audience with Pope Pius XII at Castelgandolfo near Rome, on Aug. 26, 1947. The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer’s “The Pope at War,” which comes out Tuesday, June 7, 2022 in the United States, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish “mixed marriages.” (AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File)

Vatican’s Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A view of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Nigeria, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Lawmakers in southwestern Nigeria say more than 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at a church. Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole with the Ondo State House of Assembly said the gunmen targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state on Sunday morning just as the worshippers gathered for the weekly Mass. (AP Photo/Rahaman A Yusuf)

Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials say

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

This image provided by the New York City Police Department shows a missing tabernacle and damaged angel statue in St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood in New York, which was stolen between Thursday, May 26, 2022 and Saturday, May 28, 2022. The tabernacle, a box containing Holy Communion items, was made of 18-carat gold and decorated with jewels, police and the diocese said. It’s valued at $2 million. (NYPD via AP)

$2M relic stolen, angel statue beheaded at Brooklyn church

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his blessing at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis demands humility in new zinger-filled Christmas speech

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A rainbow shines over St.Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Jan. 31, 2021. A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it on the Vatican website, saying he realized the move caused pain and that the Catholic Church indeed wants to include gays and hear from them. The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministries on the website over the weekend. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis attends a meeting of listening and prayer inside the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, central Italy, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope Francis thanks journalists for exposing Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times