The number of Catholic weddings in Ireland fell by almost 51% between 2014 and 2024, from 13,071 to 6,425, the nation’s Central Statistics Office reported on April 28. Civil marriages …
In an interview with an Italian newspaper, Archbishop Georg Gänswein said that Pope Benedict XVI “never commented” on Pope Francis’s restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass, even though they caused …
In a letter entitled “They returned to Jerusalem with great joy,” the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem emphasized the centrality of the liturgy and prayer amid war. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M., …
Writing in the Jesuit journal America, Cardinal Robert McElroy argued that “it is essential to identify and reject three major distortions of Catholic teaching on war and peace that have …
(CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Three-quarters of a century ago, on April 29, 1951, I was baptized by Father Thomas Love, SJ, in Baltimore’s Church of Saints Philip and James. Old …
Proudhon’s rabid and raging cry against capitalism, “property is theft,” has echoed from its original utterance in the 19th century into the 21st. Now found both online and on placards …
Addressing a UN commission meeting, a Vatican diplomat warned against delegating scientific decisions to AI. Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer to the United Nations and other international …
The government of Azerbaijan, a nation that is 97% Muslim, destroyed the Holy Mother of God Cathedral, an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Stepanakert. Stepanakert is a city in Nagorno-Karabakh, an …
The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) held its spring meeting in Cyprus and issued a plea for peace. The bishops said that they “turn to …
In a letter to members of Congress, the chairmen of two committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined by leaders of four Catholic organizations, weighed in on …
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