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A French childrenʼs rights group has filed formal observations with the U.N. Human Rights Council ahead of November reviews of Greece and Ireland. Flags of U.N. member states fly outside the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the U.N. Human Rights Council. | Credit: nexus 7/Shutterstock ... read more

Abidjan - “A response to the concerns expressed by various actors in national socio-political life.” This is how the bishops of Ivory Coast have described the government’s decision to dissolve the Independent Electoral Commission . The suppression of the IEC was approved by the Council of Ministers on May 6. The bishops’ position was made ... read more

Islamabad – Within the framework of the special “Year of the Children,” the Catholic community of Islamabad-Rawalpindi is called upon to improve the quality of education and maximize the participation of children, adolescents, and young people in educational programs, offering opportunities to the most disadvantaged and ensuring the financial sustainability of diocesan schools. This was ... read more

Lagos – At a time that united history, mission, and renewal, leaders of the Society of African Missions and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles gathered at the Domus Fidei Center of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus in Lagos to celebrate an extraordinary triple jubilee: 170 years of the SMA, ... read more

Left: Artwork of Saint Charles Lwanga (in the center) and his 21 followers; right: Munyonyo Martyrs’ Shrine, a Minor Basilica dedicated to the Ugandan Martyrs. (Images: Wikipedia) In the history of the Church, there have been many Christians who have been bluntly told that if they did not renounce their faith in ... read more

There are two types of martyrs in our holy Catholic Church: white martyrs, who achieve a “bloodless” martyrdom through a heroic life of self-denial, ascetical practices, and daily sacrifice for Christ; and red martyrs, those who are killed for their faith in Christ. St. Charles Lwanga and his companions, whose feast day is June 3rd, ... read more

Pope Leo XIV issued a chirograph, with accompanying statutes, establishing the Fratello Sole Foundation (Brother Sun Foundation). ... read more

Maria Montserrat (Montse) Alvarado said she was surprised by Pope Leo’s decision to appoint her as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication. ... read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago said in an interview that Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas “provides us with a new lens through which to read the entire social doctrine of the Church.” “The Pope makes this clear in the first chapter, where he offers a brilliant review of the initiatives of the Popes ... read more

The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network released the video associated with Pope Leo’s prayer intention for June. ... read more

President Ronald Reagan shaking hands with Pope John Paul II at the Miami airport on September 10, 1987. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) When he was elected Bishop of Rome on October 16, 1978, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła had a rather limited experience of the Catholic Church in the United States. He had met American ... read more

As SpaceX prepares for its initial public offering, touted as potentially the largest in history, the company’s mission statement has been much on my mind. Its terms are nothing if not ambitious: “to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the ... read more

Rome – The “permanent missionary conversion” called for by Pope Leo XIV as an urgent imperative of our time is not a mere declaration of intent or an abstract concept. This is concretely evident in the fact that secularization processes in many countries are also leading to a decline in donations, which makes it necessary ... read more

Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV spoke this morning on “Rite, sign, and symbol“ (video). ... read more

Archbishop Ronald Hicks of New York lamented the state’s Aid in Dying Act, which will take effect on August 5. ... read more