The Thomas More Society announced Jan. 6 it would pursue a rehearing of its case against California’s laws that allow public schools to conceal how a student expresses their gender identity at school from their parents.

A Nigerian bishop urged intensified military action to “eliminate” bandits and their hideouts in the Kainji Game Reserve amid reports of the killing of 50 people between Christmas and New Year’s and traumatizing of children recently abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri.

Crowds gathered in the French coastal town of Saint-Tropez to bid a final farewell to actress Brigitte Bardot.

Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda is continuing his call for prayers after police said a woman was pronounced dead following a shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis Jan. 7.

Pope Leo XIV gathered cardinals present for the extraordinary consistory this week for an early morning Mass Jan. 8 in St. Peter’s Basilica, telling them they’re together not to promote “agendas,” but to take part in a “discernment” that “comes from the Lord.”