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Pope Francis condemned conservative populists Sunday, accusing them of exploiting people’s real needs with “facile and hasty solutions.”

Pope Francis came to the defense of pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin Saturday, praising him as a “man of values.”

Climate change alarmists are pressing for faster transition away from affordable fossil fuels, insisting that the world has only nine years to avoid a “critical climate change threshold.”

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Saturday that Mount Kilimanjaro will lose its glacier by 2050 if countries fail to take “bolder” action to curb climate change.

Hong Kong authorities are forcing young inmates arrested during the 2019 pro-democracy protests to attend “patriotic education” sessions to cleanse them of “extreme ideological views,” reports a Catholic watchdog group.

The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has called on the European Union to ensure “fair access to affordable energy for all, especially the most vulnerable,” in a statement Monday on the energy crisis.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin address the U.N. COP27 climate summit Tuesday, urging net-zero emissions and warning that climate change “will not wait for us.”

Pope Francis has defended his choice of pro-abortion economist Mariana Mazzuccato for the Pontifical Academy for Life, insisting Sunday that she will add some “humanity” to the Academy.

Pope Francis urged young people in Bahrain Sunday not to be bystanders or “tourists of life” but rather to commit themselves and take risks.

Pope Francis told Muslim elders in Bahrain Friday that God is the source of peace and he “never brings about war, never incites hatred, never supports violence.”

Pope Francis on Friday denounced the “childlike scenario” taking place in Ukraine, where leaders play “with fire, missiles, and bombs.”

Pope Francis began his 3-day trip to Bahrain Thursday by praising the nation’s ethnic and cultural diversity and its high level of immigration.

Pope Francis took advantage of his visit to Bahrain Thursday to tout an upcoming United Nations climate conference in Egypt.

Nine human rights organizations, led by the George-Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, have called on Pope Francis to press Bahrain to end its human rights abuses when he visits the country from November 3 to 6, 2022.

Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron has sent a “nearly unprecedented letter” by U.S. mail to hundreds of thousands of Catholic households in southeast Michigan urging them to vote “no” on a constitutional amendment that would allow unregulated abortion on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy.

Pope Francis urged Christians to “disarm” their hearts Tuesday, asserting that this is the only way to become peacemakers.

Pope Francis said Tuesday that he looks forward to interreligious dialogue with representatives of Islam in his upcoming trip to Bahrain.

Pope Francis warned this weekend against gossip as the most destructive vice that can afflict a Christian community.

Pope Francis prayed Sunday that God “convert the hearts of the violent!” following Saturday’s Islamic terror attack in Somalia.

A survey among American Catholics voters this week reveals “strong disapproval” of President Joe Biden across the six most highly contested battleground states.

U.N. General Secretary António Guterres warned Thursday that the world is headed for a “global catastrophe” thanks to manmade climate change.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have written a letter to Congress with policy recommendations urging support for human life at all its stages.

Pope Francis cautioned against the dangers of the internet Wednesday, warning seminarians that “the devil enters” through online pornography.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni assured Parliament Tuesday that her government would rein in the country’s chaotic immigration situation and restore order and legality to migratory flows.

The leader of the U.S. Bishops’ pro-life office has blasted President Joe Biden for his abortion “extremism,” urging him to radically change course.

Religious freedom champion Nina Shea warned Tuesday that the U.S. lacks the necessary resolve to counter Xi Jinping’s “ideological war” on the West.

Pope Francis joined an assembly of global religious leaders Tuesday in praying to God for peace, especially in Ukraine.

The Vatican issued a statement Monday urging that efforts to counteract the energy crisis avoid reinvigorating the fossil fuel industry.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Monday that President Joe Biden’s full-bore backing of the transgender cause even for little children is “beyond creepy.”

The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, has urged Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to prioritize welcoming migrants and “ecological transition” in her governing program.

The editors of the Wall Street Journal have published a searing indictment of Pope Francis, insisting he has undermined the Church’s moral authority by pandering to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, has defended the appointment of Mariana Mazzucato to the Academy, insisting that her positions may be “pro-choice” but they are not “pro-abortion.”

The formidable former archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, said Saturday that President Joe Biden is not in communion with the Catholic Church, warning that any priest who gives him Holy Communion “participates in his hypocrisy.”

Two high-ranking Vatican cardinals have voiced support for the renewal of the controversial 2018 accord between the Holy See and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the naming of bishops.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue notes in an essay Wednesday that Democrats are not only “hysterical” about abortion, they are also lying about it.

The head of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has called for “comprehensive immigration reform” while railing against roadblocks to reform caused by “partisan division.”