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Pope Francis met Friday morning with the number two man of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow, the Vatican has reported.

Pope Francis has once again criticized traditionalist Catholics as woefully stuck in the past and dangerously opposed to change.

Pope Francis offered prayers for Ukraine Sunday while urging the warring parties to “stop and negotiate.

The colonization of the Americas by the British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese constituted “genocide,” Pope Francis told reporters during his flight back from Canada on Friday.

Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki has issued a public correction of Jesuit Father James Martin for his insistence that pro-abortion Catholic politicians have the right to receive Holy Communion.

The U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) warned this week that new HHS regulations mandating harmful surgical procedures are “a violation of religious freedom and bad medicine.”

Humanity’s dark history of colonization is unfortunately not ended, Pope Francis said Wednesday, because it lives on in the ideological colonization of “cancel culture.”

Part of the unspoken fallout of Russia’s ongoing military assault on Ukraine is the complete or partial destruction of 173 Christian churches in the country, Spanish Catholic media revealed Tuesday.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk called for “zero tolerance” toward Russia Tuesday, insisting that Putin aims at the total annihilation of the Ukrainian people.

Pope Francis held his first meeting with indigenous peoples of Canada on Monday, in which he repeatedly apologized for the sins and evil committed by Christians against the native population.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk condemned Russia’s “cynicism” and “treachery” Sunday following missile attacks targeting Ukraine’s grain reserves.

Pope Francis left early Sunday on a week-long “penitential” trip to Canada, in which he will meet with a number of indigenous people to aid in “healing and reconciliation.”

Pope Francis has demoted the leader of the conservative Opus Dei group from bishop to priest, revoking the structure ordained by Saint John Paul II.

“All new exploration and production of coal, oil, and gas must immediately end, and existing production of fossil fuels must be urgently phased out,” declared Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny Thursday.

The Vatican sought to rein in the unruly German Catholic “Synodal Way” Thursday, declaring it has no authority to enact “new approaches to doctrine and morals” contrary to those of the universal Church.

We humans “must repent and modify our lifestyles” because of our abuse of Mother Earth, Pope Francis states in a message released Thursday.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk thanked “the Lord God and the Armed Forces of Ukraine” Wednesday “for the fact that we survived until this morning” despite Russia’s ongoing siege of the nation.

The Vatican’s foreign minister said that the Holy See has a much better relationship with the Biden administration than it did with “the previous administration” in an interview published Wednesday.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) used her line veto power Wednesday to eliminate state support for adoption agencies, pregnancy facilities, and maternity homes proposed as alternatives to abortion.

One of two Catholic priests kidnapped in northern Nigeria last Friday has been found “brutally killed” by his abductors, local media reported Tuesday.

The Vatican’s foreign minister said that Pope Francis is “very committed to multilateralism” and “believes in the multilateral system,” in an interview published Monday.

Aborting unborn children is the opposite of healthcare, the U.S. Bishops declared Monday in a statement condemning the Women’s Health Protection Act as “the most unjust and extreme” abortion bill our nation has ever seen.

Climate change alarmists are no longer hedging their claims about global warming with conditionals, but now assert with confidence that human-induced climate change is without doubt the cause of summer heatwaves.

European Parliamentarian (EP) Ryszard Legutko has sharply criticized the EP’s “absurd” resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, insisting the EU “has no competence on such matters.”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has decried the worrisome trend of black Congresswomen siding with white supremacists in pushing abortion for blacks.

Pope Francis has reasserted his distress over climate change and has instructed the Holy See to sign onto the 2015 Paris Climate Accord.

A senior bishop of the Church of England said this week that the Church has no “official definition” of a woman amidst an evolving understanding of gender in the contemporary world.

Pope Francis urged European youth this week to eat less meat as a means of curbing global warming and preserving the planet.

The Vatican’s equivalent of foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said Tuesday that Pope Francis will “definitely go to Ukraine,” possibly as early as this summer.

The United States Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has once again condemned President Joe Biden’s ongoing assault on the unborn following his July 8 executive order on abortion access.

The European Bishops’ Conference (COMECE) has blasted the European Parliament for its July 7 resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and returning the issue of abortion legislation to the states.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk warned Friday that the Russian army is making serious inroads in its ongoing armed assault on Ukraine.

The once venerable Lancet medical journal has lauded Democrat-run U.S. states that are functioning as abortion sanctuaries for “health-care refugees” traveling from states where abortions are restricted or banned.

Pope Francis has announced his intention to add two women to the Vatican department that vets candidates for appointment as bishops.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have decried the recent mass shooting in Highland Park, IL, calling for the strengthening of gun laws, as well as programs addressing “mental health, family, and cultural factors” behind gun violence.

The once prestigious Lancet medical journal has decried the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade as an attack on the health and autonomy of “every birthing person in the USA.”