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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

US President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Pope Francis walk as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden is set to meet with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the worlds two most notable Roman Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. (Vatican Media via AP)

Biden says the pope told him to keep receiving communion

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this April 29, 2016, photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with then-Vice President Joe Biden as he takes part at a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact, being held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/L'Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP) **FILE**

Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis puts a spotlight on rifts in Catholic Church

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Author and actor Laurent Martinez gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated-Press at &quot;Theo Theater&quot; in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. French author and actor Laurent Martinez has been sexually abused by a priest. Over forty years later, he has chosen to make his story a theater play to show the devastating consequences and how speaking out can help overcoming the trauma. The play called &quot;Pardon?&quot; is deeply inspired from the Martinez's own life, describing how he felt devoured from the inside and the difficulties of daily life after being abused. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French actor breaks silence on child sex abuse within church

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Pope Francis listens to speeches during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis expresses ‘shame’ at scale of clergy abuse in France

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The Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Boulder County, Colorado, was heavily vandalized in the early morning hours of Sept. 29. Photo courtesy Mark Evevard.

Another Colorado Catholic church hit with pro-abortion graffiti, vandalism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined from left by Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., holds a news conference just before a House vote on legislation aimed at guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion, an effort by House Democrats to circumvent a new Texas law that has placed that access under threat, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi aligns herself with the Satanic Temple

By Tim Constantine

Louisville police in Colorado said St. Louis Catholic Church was defaced on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. (Image: Courtesy of the Louisville Police Department via Facebook) ** FILE **

Vandals deface Boulder County Catholic church with pro-abortion graffiti

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden speak with a priest as they depart after Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church, Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Biden’s parish in D.C. won’t restrict Communion

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Blessed Sacrament and Holy Communion Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Should Biden receive Holy Communion?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Biden's Abortion Problem Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s abortion hypocrisy is also a Catholic leadership problem

By Kristan Hawkins and Kristi Stone Hamrick

In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, photo, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during Inauguration Day ceremonies in Washington. When U.S. Catholic bishops hold their next national meeting in June 2021, they’ll be deciding whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians: Don’t partake of Communion if you persist in public advocacy of abortion rights. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Catholic politicians scrutinized as Biden heads to Vatican

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, July 11, 2020, file photo, the interior of the San Gabriel Mission is seen in the aftermath of an early morning fire in San Gabriel, Calif. A fire that gutted much of the historic Catholic church in Southern California last year was intentionally set by a 57-year-old man, prosecutors said Tuesday, May 4, 2021. John David Corey faces multiple felony counts including arson of an inhabited structure, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Man charged with setting fire at historic California mission

Associated Press

La Crosse priest flaunts ‘godless’ COVID protocols

Associated Press

Pope Francis spreads incense during a ceremony to ordain nine new priests, standing in front of him and wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope ordains 9 priests, saying: Stay humble, compassionate

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

CNN's Don Lemon Man Bad Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

‘Dear Don Lemon, You’re not God’

By Everett Piper

The Rev. Manuel Rodriguez listens to a parishioner's confession at Our Lady of Sorrows in the Queens borough of New York on Saturday, March 20, 2021. The Roman Catholic church reopened for in-person services in July 2020 and recently resumed in-person confessions. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Church in NY virus epicenter leads congregants out of sorrow

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI - Associated Press