Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

ROME — Jesus Christ is “the bread of life” and “he alone nourishes the soul,” Pope Francis declared Sunday during his weekly Angelus address.

Bishop Giuseppe Marciante of Cefalù publicly “excommunicated” those responsible for devastating wildfires on the Italian island of Sicily in recent weeks.

The Caritas office of the Argentinian diocese of Venado Tuerto apologized this week for posting a prayer to Pachamama, an Andean deity, on its social media.

Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes has responded to recent attacks by the wife of dictator Daniel Ortega, reminding the faithful that “ideologies” and “governments pass, but the Church remains.”

The Italian government mandate of a vaccine “Green Pass” to access cultural sites went into effect Friday, throwing the city of Rome into pandemonium.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has slammed the Disney corporation for introducing a transgender character in its celebrated Muppet Babies children’s show.

Pope Francis made his first public appearance Wednesday since being hospitalized for colon surgery on July 4, telling crowds that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be accepted exactly as it is.

The elimination of baby girls through sex-selective abortions will lead to an increase in the gender gap by 4.7 million over the next nine years, according to a report Wednesday in MedicalNewsToday.

Authorities of the Islamic nation of Algeria have closed down three Christian churches in what critics describe as “direct violations of the right to religious freedom,” Crux reported Tuesday.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has called on Congress to defund National Public Radio (NPR), citing its anti-Catholic history and flagrant liberal bias.

The former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has issued a scathing indictment of Pope Francis, calling him “the head of the most extremist faction of progressivism.”

Fabrizio Masucci, president and director of Naples’ Sansevero Chapel Museum, resigned from his post Monday in protest against the requirement of the new “Green Pass” in museums.

ROME — Pope Francis said Tuesday that the Catholic Church will always be “in crisis” because crisis is a sign of life.

A former Planned Parenthood director has accused the abortion giant of practicing “deception” in drumming up business for the abortion industry, the Christian Post reported Monday.

South Korean Archbishop Lazarus You Heung-sik arrived in the Vatican this weekend to assume his new post as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and said that times have never been better for a papal visit to North Korea.

A Catholic Bishop in northeastern Nigeria has warned that the nation is in a state of collapse, principally because of the incompetence and inaction of its government leaders.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have denounced the inclusion of taxpayer-funded overseas abortions in an appropriations bill approved by the House of Representatives this week.

Two Oregon State University professors have doubled down in declaring a worldwide “climate emergency” and warning of “untold suffering” if fossil fuels are not eliminated.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday his “intent to nominate” Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, the first Muslim to occupy the post.

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been criminally charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in 1974.

At least 3,462 Christians were murdered by Islamists in Nigeria during the first 200 days of 2021, while some 3,000 Christians — many of them girls and young women — were kidnapped in the same period, Crux reported Thursday.

The Supreme Court has received a flurry of amicus curiae briefs this week as lawyers and scholars rush to point out the fatally flawed jurisprudence of the woeful 1973 Roe v. Wade case and its companion cases.

A presumably Hindu mob of some 30 people stormed the Catholic Nazareth Hospital in Mokama, northeast India, and assaulted patients and staff members, Crux reported Wednesday.

Climate scientist Dr. Willie Soon has urged his fellow academics to pay closer attention to the sun’s activity, which suggests several decades of global cooling rather than warming.

Location-based homosexual and heterosexual hookup apps are widely used within Vatican walls, an investigative report revealed late Tuesday, which can lend itself to blackmail and other security risks.

Widespread anti-Christian violence in India stems from “an environment of targeted hate” aggravated by a “sense of impunity generated in India’s administrative apparatus,” a Christian watchdog group declared in its semiannual report last week.

ROME — The Vatican opened a criminal trial Tuesday against a high-level cardinal and nine other defendants accused of criminal mismanagement of the Holy See’s portfolio of assets.

Pope Francis urged a United Nations meeting on food security to prioritize the agricultural sector in the post-pandemic global “reset.”

The Catholic Church and the French state commemorated Monday the fifth anniversary of the martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit by two jihadists while he celebrated Mass on this day in 2016.

The Vatican announced Saturday a deficit of €66.3 million in its consolidated balance sheet for the year 2020, nearly sextupling its 2019 deficit of €11.3 million.