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Pope Leo XIV called for an end to all antisemitism, prejudice, oppression and persecution worldwide. ... read more

More U.S. Catholic bishops are sounding the alarm over an increasingly frayed social order both at home and abroad — while calling for a renewal of heart and a recommitment to Gospel values safeguarding God-given human dignity. ... read more

A Georgetown report reveals most religious institutes in the U.S. had no one making perpetual vows in 2025. Nuns walk in front of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., at Easter 2018. | Credit: Kristi Blokhin/Shutterstock The large majority of religious institutions in ... read more

In Scotland, a former Sister of Nazareth religious sister has been jailed for 15 months for abusing children and vulnerable young people. Nazareth Home in Kilmarnock. | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry In Scotland, a former Sister of Nazareth nun has been jailed for 15 months ... read more

ivSky Pet stores now seem far more evident in Rome. COMMENTARY: 'Family' has, evidently, acquired new — and some would say, ominous — connotations in a world of infertility. ... read more

by Msgr. Stuart Swetland, STD Q Dear Father: I will be attending my niece’s wedding at a Polish National Catholic Church. Would it be acceptable as a practicing Roman Catholic to receive the Eucharist during the wedding at this church? More broadly, can Catholics receive communion at other Christian churches that aren’t Catholic? — Judy ... read more

Kinshasa – Rumors have been circulating in recent days about the alleged assassination of former Congolese President Joseph Kabila. According to information sent to Fides, former Congolese President Joseph Kabila was killed on January 25 in an explosion at the building where he was meeting with representatives of the M23 guerrilla group in Kalundu, one ... read more

The Lead Bishop for Racial Justice of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has issued a statement for Racial Justice Sunday. commemorated there on February 1. “In the family of the Church and in society there are people from every nation and race, all are important, wonderfully made,” said Auxiliary Bishop Paul ... read more

The Vatican’s Court of Cassation has cleared the way for the appeal phase of the Secretariat of State funds trial — commonly tied in headlines to Cardinal Angelo Becciu — rejecting last-ditch procedural challenges and accepting the recusal of Vatican Promoter of Justice Alessandro Diddi from the case. ... read more

Vatican City - The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Msgr. Dominic Kimengich, currently Bishop of Eldoret, as Coadjutor Archbishop of Mombasa, Kenya. Bishop Dominic Kimengich was born on April 23, 1961, in Kituro. He studied philosophy at St. Augustine's Senior Seminary and theology at St. Thomas Aquinas Senior Seminary in Nairobi. He was ordained ... read more

Vatican City - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Popokabaka , presented by His Exc. Msgr. Bernard Marie Fansaka Biniama. ... read more

In an interview with the Vatican newspaper, a Minnesota bishop offered strong criticism of the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. ... read more

In his opening address to a meeting of the officers of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna warned that “force, even more so if it incredibly mocks the law and the international processes so laboriously won in the past decades, only creates dangerous instability at all levels and forces us to give ... read more

Echoing reports from Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame, the Newman Center at Arizona State University is reporting a record number of conversions this school year. Father Aaron Qureshi said that 15 or 20 students typically enter the Church there each year. Fifty-two students there entered the Church during the ... read more

The prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity said in an interview that Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in winter are acts of genocide. “I was in Kyiv during the winter several times,” said Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. “It is a nightmare when the city is left without power at this time ... read more