World News

ABUJA, Nigeria — The Catholic Church in Nigeria is equipping future priests with the knowledge and skills to identify, prevent, and respond to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).The initiative, which has already reached more than 260 seminarians at St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Makurdi, Benue state, seeks to prepare future priests to recognize different ... read more

A bishop who took part in a recent meeting with President Donald Trump said that “I wish I had been more shrewd and less simple, like those who exploited our meeting for partisan political purposes.” “There are many things tied to this present Administration that are blatantly at odds with our Catholic faith,” ... read more

The Office of Policy and Advocacy of the US bishops’ Secretariat of Migration has published a three-page “Update on Temporary Protected Status for Ukraine.” The update addresses three questions: “What is TPS and why is it important for Ukrainians in the United States?”, “What is the difference between TPS and humanitarian parole?”, and “How ... read more

The director of the Holy See Press Office commented on the Secretariat of State’s decision not to permit an annual pilgrimage of Catholics devoted to the extraordinary form of the Mass to process into St. Peter’s Basilica. The Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage’s request referred “exclusively to the procession, because that’s ordinarily not allowed, not ... read more

A leading Vatican diplomat said that the “only lasting response to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons is their total elimination.” “While measures to reduce nuclear risks are necessary, they cannot substitute for disarmament,” Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said at a ... read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago defended the bestowal of an archdiocesan award to a major donor to pro-abortions causes. “This year’s recipient” of the Nostra Aetate Award “is Mr. Michael Sacks, a well-respected leader in Chicago and in the Jewish community,” said Cardinal Cupich. “Refusing to honor or engage with Jews solely ... read more

In light of the new feminist hysteria over Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the Cornell 7 allegations, and Shane Gillis’s joke about women’s gym outfits, along with the weird doomsday predictions of suspicious Big Tech geniuses like Dario Amodei, it makes sense that the new documentary You Can See Everything has generated so much attention and ... read more

We have reached such an extraordinary degree of political derangement within Catholic discourse in the U.S. that twelve bishops praying over the President of the United States now constitutes a scandal requiring public apologies and elaborate explanations from successors of the Apostles. The recent outrage directed toward bishops who prayed over President ... read more

Three events recently converged: the mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s trial for murdering her three children; Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike; and a book I’ve been reading, Unravelling MAiD in Canada. They have one common thread: the medicalization of death. Lindsay Clancy’s strangulation of her children was blamed on a medical condition: postpartum psychosis. ... read more

Representatives of various religions, joined by prelates and scholars, have gathered in Assisi for a three-day international meeting for peace, four decades after Pope St. John Paul II’s 1986 day of prayer for peace there. The meeting concludes today with a time of prayer. Christians are scheduled to pray in the Basilica of ... read more

Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the general chapter of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Jeanne Antide Thouret to keep alive their charism of Christ-centered charity. ... read more

Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop emeritus of Palermo, Italy, died on October 25 at the age of 88. Born in 1938 and ordained to the priesthood in 1961, Romeo entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1967 and was appointed apostolic nuncio to Haiti in 1983. He was later appointed apostolic ... read more

The prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity begins a three-day humanitarian mission to Ukraine today. Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A., is bringing 600 boxes of food, clothing, and blankets to Kyiv. ... read more

"If we are to be faithful to the Spirit of Assisi in this generation, it is going to require that we, too, find our own way of living out the truth of the Catholic faith in a way that deepens our understanding as we walk with people of other faiths," Chris Crawford writes. ... read more

A new study by the humanitarian medical organization MedGlobal offers unusually hopeful numbers showing dropping acute malnutrition among children under 5 in Gaza. But "a huge fragility" remains. ... read more