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A comprehensive statistical report on Catholicism this week reveals growth where the Church is vibrantly orthodox and decline where it has fallen into worldly liberalism.

Pope Francis telephoned U.S. President Joe Biden Sunday to discuss the need to identify “paths to peace” in the Middle East and elsewhere, the Vatican press office revealed Monday.

The Vatican lamented that “the military use of outer space remains relatively uncontrolled” while calling for disarmament.

Pope Francis insisted Thursday that “safer routes” and expanded “channels” must be established for migrants wishing to leave their countries in search of a better life.

Pope Francis received in private audience Tuesday Sister Jeannine Gramick, cofounder of the pro-LGBT group New Ways Ministry, which has been denied the title “Catholic” by Church authorities.

A failure to recognize the biological basis of gender is an offense to both reason and science, two California bishops assert in a pastoral letter.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has sharply criticized the Vatican’s lukewarm words on the October 7 Hamas terror attack in Gaza, calling for an “unequivocal condemnation” of the lethal aggression.

Belgian Catholic Bishop Johan Bonny sparked controversy by suggesting that euthanasia is not necessarily morally wrong in all circumstances.

Pope Francis appealed Wednesday for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held by the Hamas terror group on the Gaza strip, while criticizing Israel’s “total siege” on Palestinians in Gaza.

John Kerry has congratulated Pope Francis for a new letter on the “climate crisis” in which the pope calls out the United States for its high per capita carbon emissions.

In a curious case of cognitive dissonance, Pope Francis has condemned “alarmism” over Europe’s migrant crisis while stoking the most extreme alarmism over the “climate crisis.”

The formidable Cardinal Joseph Zen asks in a recent letter to his brother bishops why the Catholic Church would embark on a path of “synodality” when it has delivered such terrible results in Germany.

Pope Francis has thrown the moral authority of the papacy behind the so-called climate crisis, insisting that the world “is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point” due to global warming.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has reasserted his nation’s sovereignty, standing up to “the Soros empire, the Brussels bureaucrats, and the Democrats in America.”

The UK-based Guardian newspaper has made the remarkable assertion that rainstorms are now 20 percent “wetter,” thanks to climate change.

Five prominent cardinals have challenged Pope Francis to clarify apparent ambiguities in his teaching regarding topics such as blessings for gay couples, the ordination of women, and the authority of the synod of bishops.

Father Timothy Radcliffe opened the Vatican Synod by confessing, “I am old, white, a Westerner, and a man! I don’t know which is worse.”

Progressive Catholics are aghast that a “shockingly low” number of U.S. Catholics support Pope Francis’s radical take on global warming.

ROME — Kazakh Bishop Athanasius Schneider has joined the many Catholic prelates warning of nefarious plotting behind the scenes of the upcoming Vatican “Synod on Synodality.”

Two major anthropological associations have canceled a panel discussion on the importance of biological sex, citing harm to the “Trans and LGBTQI” communities and their collective “dignity.”

The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres has denounced “climate-related carnage” in Pakistan caused by “apocalyptic flooding.”

The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres called for “drastic steps” Friday to eliminate all fossil fuels in order to curb global warming.

Pope Francis condemned France’s proposed end-of-life legislation Saturday, asserting that “life is not to be played with.”

Climate change alarmist Al Gore has blasted the fossil fuel industry, accusing fuel companies of “using the atmosphere as an open sewer.”

Pope Francis has launched an appeal to rescue more migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and bring them to Europe despite the record numbers already arriving.

A recent Christian Revival event at the Corpus Christi campus of Texas A&M University drew over 1,000 students and administered over 120 baptisms, The Christian Post reported Friday.

The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres said this week that finding solutions to climate change is urgent because humanity “has opened the gates of hell.”

The Vatican announced Tuesday that it will generate a carbon credit to offset the climate debt incurred by its upcoming synod of bishops in Rome.

Pope Francis engaged former U.S. President Bill Clinton via zoom Monday, stressing the urgency of addressing the climate change “catastrophe,” the migration “crisis,” and war.

Hungary’s first female president, Katalin Novák, has launched a 12-point pro-family manifesto defending parental rights and bucking woke trans trends.

Celebrated atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has denounced the use of “Islamophobia” as a perversion of language to escape rational argument.

The city of Venice, Italy, “is under threat due to human-caused climate change,” National Public Radio (NPR) asserted Tuesday, citing a recent UNESCO report.

U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters in Vietnam that the only thing scarier than nuclear war is a rise in global temperatures and that climate change skeptics are “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers.”

China’s government-run propaganda outlet Global Times mocked the United States on Sunday with a political cartoon marking the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

A mob of Fulani Muslim raiders torched a Catholic parish rectory in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, killing a 25-year-old seminarian, local media reported.

The once-respected Lancet medical journal has launched a commission on gender equality as part of its progressive political crusade.