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The once prestigious Lancet medical journal has attacked a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, calling for the defense of Roe v. Wade and continued abortion-on-demand in the United States.

Pope Francis decried falling birthrates in the Western world Thursday, calling the demographic drop a new form of “generative poverty.”

ROME — Hong Kong police arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen on Wednesday evening, then released him on bail hours later.

The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) is urging Catholics and people of good will to contact senators set to vote Wednesday on the Women’s Health Protection Act.

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, has called on all Catholics to “denounce” the evil rhetoric of Catholic politicians campaigning in favor of abortion.

Gunmen riding motorcycles stormed the premises of Saint Pius X parish in southern Nigeria Sunday and abducted Father Alphonsus Uboh, the parish pastor.

The U.S. Catholic Bishops have declared Friday, May 13, as a day of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion in America.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said this weekend that Russia is self-sufficient and has no wish to “invade or occupy anyone.”

The Catholic Church in Mexico has joined the Bishops of the United States in a campaign of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the European Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE), has called on the European Union (EU) to accept Ukraine’s application for membership.

Pope Francis accused those resisting his sweeping restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass as sowers of division in the Church.

The Orthodox Bishop Epiphanius, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, called Russian president Vladimir Putin the “new Antichrist” who has “decided to destroy the Ukrainian people.”

Pope Francis again condemned the “senseless calamity of war” Sunday, offering special prayers for the people of Ukraine.

Pope Francis urged Christians Friday to renew efforts toward unity, since divisions among Christians frequently generate dangerous conflicts, as the Russia-Ukraine war illustrates.

The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported Friday that at least ten priests of the underground Catholic Church have been arrested in Baoding, China, since the beginning of 2022.

Pop icon Madonna tagged Pope Francis on Twitter Thursday, asking the pontiff for a meeting “to discuss some important matters.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said Wednesday that Ukraine suffered more missile strikes in just one night than Syria did in eleven years of war.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue blasted President Joe Biden’s comments on abortion, which display a woeful ignorance of basic biology.

Pope Francis condemned religious hypocrisy Wednesday, insisting that it can destroy the faith of entire generations.

Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Moscow Patriarch Kirill is hurting rather than helping the situation in Ukraine by his support for Putin’s war.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin criticized Saint Pius V Sunday, a 16th-century pope known for defeating the Ottoman Turks at the crucial Battle of Lepanto.

Pope Francis renewed his appeal for an “integral ecology” Monday, calling on Christians to live “in harmony with the environment” and “in harmony with the universe.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said Sunday that the Ukrainian army is taking the upper hand and slowly reconquering land taken by the Russian invaders.

Pope Francis again condemned the war on Ukraine Sunday, calling for Catholics to pray the rosary for peace every day during the month of May.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said Friday that in the face of a possible nuclear disaster, “Ukraine is protecting Europe and the world.”

The president of Franciscan University has urged that women’s sports be reserved for biological women in an op-ed this week in USA Today.

Pope Francis warned again of Europe’s “demographic winter” on Friday, caused by a dangerously low birthrate far beneath replacement levels.

A spate of articles in recent weeks chronicle a startling rise in “eco-anxiety” among children, defined by the American Psychological Association as “a chronic fear of environmental doom” from climate change.

The once-prestigious Lancet medical journal has doubled down in its support for mass masking of healthy individuals, urging that the practice be continued for reasons of “altruism and solidarity.”

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has denounced Russian war crimes, especially soldiers’ sexual violence against children.

Pope Francis discussed how the Catholic Church can be most effective in combatting climate change in his 41st meeting with his Council of Cardinals.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has urged the State Department to designate India as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for its “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations” of religious liberty.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that misuse of the tongue is one of the “worst sins” of mothers-in-law in a reflection on the value of the elderly in society.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has urged the U.S. State Department to redesignate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for its egregious violations of religious liberty.

Pope Francis wiped his agenda clean Tuesday, including an important meeting with his Council of Cardinals, because of knee pain, the Vatican announced.

Pope Francis welcomed a large assembly of Sri Lankan pilgrims in the Vatican on Monday to commemorate the 2019 Islamic State Easter Sunday massacre that claimed the lives of over 350 people.