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Connecticut Catholic school punishes students who targeted ‘Jew Canaan’ rivals on social media

Fairfield College Preparatory School informed families about the posts and told The New York Times that the posts did not reflect the school's values.

Fairfield College Preparatory Academy in Fairfield, Connecticut, as captured in 2018.
 Rabbi Kalman Bar

Chief rabbi calls for protection of mosques, churches and synagogues after attacks

Armenian Orthodox worshippers arrive at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, January 18, 2026

A crisis of faith: The Christian debate over Jews, covenant, and Israel - opinion

Theodor Herzl: ‘It felt as if the great dream of our nation, of 2,000 years.'

Zionism, Catholicism, and the revival of an old hostility - opinion


Interior min. meets cardinal who offered himself for hostage children

The meeting was held at the initiative of the Religious Denominations Department in the Interior Ministry and saw Arbel explain to Pizzaballa Israel's standing in the war against Hamas.

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

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

The all-time winningest Jewish college basketball coach at any level for both men and women with 898 wins.

 A basketball passing through a hoop.

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

WJC said its “Kishreinu” initiative was a response to Nostra Aetate, the landmark 1965 document that modernized the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism and other religions.

 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.

Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa made his comment in response to a question during a video conference with journalists in Italy.

 Mgr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

The first resident cardinal in Jerusalem's history

The historic elevation of Latin Patriarch Mgr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Vatican may bring more of a papal focus on the holy city

 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.

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

Bishop Jose Armando Alvarez from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico said the church roof crumbled as worshipers were receiving communion.

 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

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

Atheists were also found to regard this curiosity as moral, although less moral than a lack of religious curiosity.

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

Vatican Jerusalem Cardinal appointment signals diplomatic and religious intentions

The appointment of Archbishop Pizzaballa as a cardinal underlines the Vatican's desire to play a more active role in the ongoing diplomatic discussions concerning Jerusalem.

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

Catholic Church beatifies Polish family for sheltering Jews

The beatification service for Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children was held in the southeastern Polish town of Markowa where they died in March 1944 at the hands of German military police.

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

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

Calling nature a "sacred gift from the creator," the pope urged people to take the side of the "victims of environmental and climatic injustice."

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