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Texarkana century-old church restoration nearly complete

By JENNIFER MIDDLETON - Associated Press

In a May 5, 2018 photo, a jewel-encrusted papal tiara from the Sistine Chapel sacristy at the Vatican, is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” the spring fashion exhibit at the museum’s Costume Institute. (AP Photo/Jocelyn Noveck)

Vatican bling takes center stage at new Met fashion exhibit

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope to Chile abuse victims: “I was part of the problem”

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Australian Cardinal George Pell arrives at the Magistrates Court in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, arrived surrounded by police and media to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago. (Joe Castro/AAP Image via AP)

George Pell, Australian cardinal, to face trial on sexual abuse charges

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Stained glass given new life at Catholic church in Jasper

By LEANN BURKE - Associated Press

Law didn’t cover child sex crime victims; DA undeterred

By JOEL SHANNON and York Daily Record - Associated Press

Lucetta Scaraffia, editor in chief of "Donne, Chiesa, Mondo" (Women, Church, World), poses for portraits in her house in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. The March edition of "Women, Church, World" — the monthly magazine of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano — is denouncing how nuns are treated like virtual slaves by cardinals and bishops, forced to cook, clean and tend to their needs for next to no pay. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Vatican magazine denounces nuns’ servitude

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Former church to open as new arts and performance space

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Pope Francis celebrates a seaside Mass on Huanchaco Beach, near the city of Trujillo, Peru, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. Francis travelled Saturday to northern Peru, a region still reeling from devastating floods nearly a year ago. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Cardinal rebukes pope over Chile ‘slander’ comments on abuse

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis arrives on his pope-mobile to celebrate Mass on Lobito Beach in Iquique, Chile, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Pope Francis shocks Chile by accusing sexual abuse victims of slander

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Millennials fueling resurgence in candidates for priesthood

By DAN HORN - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Martin Luther’ by Eric Metaxas

By Diana Banister

Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese Cardinal Sean O'Malley speaks to the media, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in Braintree, Mass., on the death of Cardinal Bernard Law. The disgraced former Boston archbishop, who epitomized the Catholic Church's failure to protect children from sexually abusive priests, died Wednesday in Rome. He was 86. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes) ** FILE **

Pope prays for merciful final judgement for Cardinal Law

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Australian Government Royal Commission, Commissioner Justice Peter McClellan, second left, shakes hands with Governor-General of Australia Peter Cosgrove, fourth right, at the signing ceremony and the release of the final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse at Government House, in Canberra, Dec. 15, 2017. The commission delivered its final 17-volume report and 189 recommendations following a wide-ranging investigation. (Jeremy Piper/Australian Government Royal Commission via AP)

Australian probe into child abuse attacks Catholic celibacy

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Police: Catholic church collection box robbed

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Bangladeshi Catholic nuns greet Pope Francis during his visit to Church of the Holy Rosary in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Pope Francis is wrapping up his Asian trip with a visit to an orphanage and home for the disabled run by Mother Teresa's order and a meeting with Bangladeshi priests and nuns. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Catholic Church pressed to lift celibacy, dime out confessing abusers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

John Feit enters the 92nd state District Court before the verdict was read in his trial for the 1960 murder of Irene Garza Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, at the Hidalgo County Courthouse in Edinburg, Texas. Feit was found guilty of Garza's murder. (Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor via AP)

Ex-priest gets life in prison for 1960 parishioner slaying

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Church Nativity scene honors victims of gun massacres

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In a Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017 photo, Becca Kacanda repairs stained glass windows from Steeple Square in Dubuque, Iowa. (Eileen Meslar/Telegraph Herald via AP)

Iowa community restores old church’s stained-glass windows

By JOHN KRUSE - Associated Press

Oklahoma parish receives religious relic

By CARLA HINTON - Associated Press