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Interior Minister Moshe Arbel is seen meeting with Jerusalem's Latin patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Interior min. meets cardinal who offered himself for hostage children

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

A basketball passing through a hoop.

After 47 years and 900 wins, this Jewish basketball coach is a legend at his Catholic college

By GREG LEVINSKY/JTA

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a a “Kishreinu” (Hebrew for “Our Bond”) document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, Oct. 19, 2023.

In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

Mgr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages

By REUTERS

POPE FRANCIS blesses new Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa during a consistory ceremony to elevate Roman Catholic prelates to the rank of cardinal, in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican last week.

The first resident cardinal in Jerusalem's history

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY

Members of security forces, people and a priest work at a site where a church roof collapsed during Sunday mass in Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico in this handout picture distributed to Reuters on October 1, 2023

Mexican church roof collapses during Sunday mass killing 9, about 30 others missing

By REUTERS

More morning-oriented individuals may benefit from higher psychological wellbeing thanks to both personality characteristics and attitudes toward religion.

Curiosity about religion is viewed as morally virtuous, new research finds

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Cardinal-elect Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem during Easter week, 2023.

Vatican Jerusalem Cardinal appointment signals diplomatic and religious intentions

By Nicole Jansezian/The Media Line

Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Catholic Church beatifies Polish family for sheltering Jews

By REUTERS

Pope Francis holds a weekly general audience in Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, August 30, 2023.

Pope decries 'terrible world war' on environment, announces new writing

By REUTERS

Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Pope Francis laments 'reactionary,' politicized, US Catholic Church

By REUTERS

Pregnant woman suffers from depression (Illustrative)

US court rules against woman fired by Catholic school over pregnancy

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Are Christians in Jerusalem living under acts of violence and vandalism? (Illustrative)

Jerusalem Christians say they're under attack – will Israel help?

By I. H. MINTZ

Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Huge billboard in Lisbon puts spotlight on clergy abuse as pope arrives

By REUTERS

People participate in a vigil in support of the 4,815 children that were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church, according to the commission investigating the issue, in Lisbon, Portugal, February 22, 2023.

Pope to Portugal for bittersweet 'Catholic Woodstock'

By REUTERS

St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

Israeli scholars delve into Vatican’s Hebrew manuscript collection

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako

Chaldean Catholic leader in Iraq moves to Kurdish region

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

The Western Wall is seen in a photo taken February 9, 2023

Catholic abbot told to cover cross at Western Wall