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Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter’s music video spurs …

FILE - Sabrina Carpenter performs on the second day of the Lollapalooza Music Festival, Aug. 4, 2023, in Chicago. Carpenter's use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn as a backdrop for parts of a music video led to a pastor being stripped of his administrative duties after its release and officials holding a Mass to restore the church's “sanctity.” Carpenter released the video for “Feather” on Oct. 31. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

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Pope cancels trip to Dubai for UN climate conference on …

FILE - Pope Francis arrives to preside over a Mass in St. Peter Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Pope Francis cancelled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders. The announcement marked the second time the pope’s frail health had forced the cancellation of a foreign trip: He had to postpone a planned trip to Congo and South Sudan in 2022 because of knee inflammation, though he was able to make the trip earlier this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope punishes leading critic Cardinal Burke in second …

FILE - Cardinal Raymond Burke applauds during a news conference at the Italian Senate, in Rome, on Sept. 6, 2018. Pope Francis has taken measures to punish one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke, by yanking his right to a Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against a conservative American prelate this month, according to two people briefed on the measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

New documentary offers a peek into the triumphs and struggles …

Retired Lt. Col. Abdul Rasheed Muhammad stands for a portrait at the Masjidul Taqwa of San Diego mosque where he serves as Imam, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in San Diego. Muhammad was the first Muslim chaplain in the U.S. armed forces. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Pope Francis getting antibiotics intravenously for lung …

A giant screen broadcasts Pope Francis coughing during the Angelus noon prayer, from the chapel of the hotel at the Vatican grounds where he lives, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. Pope Francis says he has a lung inflammation but will go later this week to Dubai for the climate change conference. Francis skipped his weekly Sunday appearance at a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, a day after the Vatican said he was suffering from a mild flu. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis has a hospital checkup after coming down …

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

In the US, Hmong ‘new year’ recalls ancestral spirits …

Nhia Neng Vang holds a rooster that will be used in a backyard sweeping ritual in St. Paul, Minn. on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. The ritual, in which participants walk together in circles, first to the west and then to the east, represents leaving old negative spirits behind and embracing the new year. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

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Pope meets relatives of Israeli hostages and Palestinians …

Evgenia Kozlov gets emotional during a press conference at the Italian Jewish Center in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, with other representatives of the families of the Israelis abducted by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 and believed to be held hostages in Gaza, shortly after they met with Pope Francis at The Vatican. Her 27-year-old son Andrei, depicted in the framed photograph, a Russian citizen, was abducted by Hamas militants from the "Nova" Music Festival near Kibbutz Re'im during the militant group's unprecedented attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that resulted in the killing of 1,400 people and the abduction of over 220. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Timekeepers no more, rank-and-file Jehovah’s Witnesses …

A woman shares Jehovah's Witnesses' literature with a passerby in downtown Pittsburgh on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Jehovah's Witnesses regularly distribute literature in public places and do door-to-door evangelism, but for the first time in more than a century, their congregations will not be regularly tracking their hours in ministry. (AP Photo/Peter Smith)

How a massive all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple …

A lit photo of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, left, the founding guru of Kauai's Hindu Monastery, hangs in a meditation room on July 13, 2023, in Kapaa, Hawaii. The temple monastery was founded in 1970. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Founder of far-right Catholic site resigns over breach …

FILE - Michael Voris, founder of Church Militant, speaks during a rally outside of the Baltimore hotel where the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops are holding its Fall General Assembly meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Baltimore. Voris, of a far-right, unofficial Catholic media group, has resigned for an unspecified violation of the organization's morality clause, the group said in a statement Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Carlton Pearson, influential Oklahoma megachurch …

FILE - Bishop Carlton Pearson speaks at a news conference accompanied by several other clergy members, April 4, 2013, in Chicago. Bishop Carlton Pearson died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023 in hospice care in Tulsa due to cancer according to his agent. He was 70. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)

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For this group of trans women, the pope and his message …

Priest Andrea Conocchia stands on the beach of Torvaianica, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Pope Francis' recent gestures of welcome for transgender Catholics has resonated strongly in Torvaianica, where a community of trans women has found help and hope through a remarkable relationship with the pontiff and the local parish priest Andrea Conocchia. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)