Month: July 2026

The question of whether there is a crisis in the Catholic Church hinges on a slew of facts and their interpretations. The argument that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of …

In a 169-164 vote, the French Senate rejected an assisted-suicide bill for the third time on July 7. The National Assembly—the lower house of the French Parliament—voted in favor of …

Welcoming the “progress that has been accomplished in preventing and treating HIV and AIDS in the past five years,” a Vatican diplomat drew “special attention to children, who remain particularly …

Enacting disciplinary measures on his priests, a Kenyan bishop imposed a 7:00 PM curfew, banned alcohol in Church residences, banned overnight visits and lay guests without his permission, and forbade …

In the fall of 1974, new “language arts” textbooks appeared throughout the school system in Kanawha County, West Virginia. They fostered a new value system, different from traditional morality. Parents …

In a Latin-language letter, Pope Leo XIV recalled the persecution of the Church in Ukraine after the Second World War and the restoration of the hierarchy there following the Soviet …

Pope Leo XIV exhorted the Church in Asia, and especially the bishops there, to implore God “that we may become builders of communion and not architects of this world’s Babylon; …