The official press agency of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions has denounced the mass arrests, imprisonment, and “reeducation” programs imposed on participants in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrations of 2019.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged the Vatican not to place Ukraine and Russia on the same plane as if both share responsibility for the war.
The once-respectable Lancet medical journal has once again taken a deep dive into woke politics, publishing an entire series on “racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and health.”
Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila has denounced attempts by the mainstream media to pin a recent shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs on the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis has praised the bishop of Brownsville Texas for his diocese’s work with immigrants, comparing the latter to Jesus Christ himself.
Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date Wednesday in condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine, tying it to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.
Americans with no religious affiliation or belief skew heavily toward the Democrat party in their voting, according to a report this weekend from the Associated Press (AP).
Pope Francis railed against hypocrisy Sunday, urging his hearers to live authentically and take off their masks.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has provoked a series of collateral crises around the world, Pope Francis asserted Friday.
Pope Francis requested prayers Friday, or at least “good vibes” from those who do not know how to pray or do not believe in God.
A Christian couple and their daughter were hacked to death with machetes in Nigeria this week by suspected Fulani Islamists, local media reported Thursday.
“We are gravely disappointed that the misnamed Respect for Marriage Act passed the Senate and continue to call for its rejection,” wrote the chairman of Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth in a statement Thursday.
The Islamic State in Mozambique (ISM) has ordered Christians and Jews to pay a jizya tax for infidels as a sign of their submission to an Islamic Caliphate, the Barnabas Fund reported Thursday.
The Holy See’s website was shut down for many hours Wednesday by a cyber-attack after the Vatican offended both Russia and China in past days.
A leading African cardinal said last weekend that religious liberty is “under threat” in the West where there is an “implicit bias against Christianity.”
A Chinese government representative declared this week that he was “not aware” of the demotion and relocation of a Catholic bishop in violation of the 2018 Sino-Vatican accord on the appointment of bishops.
Pope Francis asserted this week that real Catholics reject polarization in a spirit of embracing and harmonizing differences.
The Russian government has protested Pope Francis’s latest comments on the war in Ukraine, in which he claimed that the “cruelest” soldiers are not Russian but outsiders like “the Chechens” and “the Buryati” who fight on the Russian side.
A French priest has been suspended from preaching for four weeks after asserting that abortion has claimed more victims than World War I.
Stalin’s Holodomor genocide of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s was a “historical antecedent” to Russia’s current armed aggression, Pope Francis said in an interview published Monday.
Pope Francis is mourning the death of a homeless German man who died just outside the Vatican this week, the Holy See reported.
The Vatican has registered its “surprise and regret” over China’s unilateral decision to demote and relocate a Catholic bishop without the approval of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis has written a letter to the people of Ukraine marking nine months since the outbreak of war on their soil.
Cardinal Joseph Zen has been found guilty together with 5 others of failing to properly register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal and medical aid to jailed protesters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
Pope Francis called on the International Theological Commission Thursday to increase the number of women in its ranks, insisting they make theology “tastier.”
Pope Francis tied Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Holodomor, when the Soviet leader engineered a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
Bioethicist Matthew Wynia told NPR’s Morning Edition Tuesday that doctors may be compelled to perform illegal abortions as an act of civil disobedience.
Pope Francis railed against systemic injustice Tuesday in an address to members of the World Jewish Congress in the Vatican.
The global oppression or persecution of Christians has increased significantly over the past two years, Vatican News reported Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Moscow Patriarch Kirill Sunday for his wise leadership and careful oversight of church-state relations.
The United States Embassy to the Holy See celebrated “Transgender Day of Remembrance” Sunday, offering tribute “to those of the transgender community who have been murdered because of hate.”
Pope Francis called on young people to be “transgressive” Sunday instead of conforming to the expectations of the world.
The newly elected president of the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) is correct in linking clerical sexual abuse to homosexuality, declares Catholic League president Bill Donohue.
The president of the German Bishops’ Conference said Friday that he will continue blessing gay couples and will allow his priests to do so as well.
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told Italian media Thursday that his country would welcome a serious peace proposal from Russia with “great joy.”
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has slammed the Democrat-sponsored Respect for Marriage Act as an assault on religious freedom and on all those who believe in traditional marriage.
The United States Bishops have elected military Archbishop Timothy Broglio as president of the Bishops’ conference, a conservative known for his defense of religious freedom and his support for Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers in the armed forces.
Aachen bishop Helmut Dieser has called on the Catholic Church to adopt a new vision of homosexuality just prior to visiting Pope Francis in the Vatican.
Representatives of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) – the official international Catholic relief and development agency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops – have blamed climate change for Madagascar’s ongoing troubles with weather-induced drought and famine.
Washington, DC, Cardinal Wilton Gregory has cancelled the yearly Youth Rally and Mass for Life held in conjunction with the March for Life.
