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The authoritarian Sandinista regime of Nicaragua banned the nation’s Catholic Church from celebrating all Holy Week processions, ecclesiastical sources informed local media on Friday.

Pope Francis has abolished housing discounts for cardinals, bishops, and other Vatican officials, citing a need to increase “revenues from the management of real estate assets.”

The Catholic Humanitarian Committee has written a letter condemning the unjust imprisonment of Hong Kong Catholic businessman Jimmy Lai by Communist Chinese authorities.

The redoubtable bishop of Springfield, IL, has publicly accused San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy of “heresy” for his rejection of the Church basic moral teaching.

The Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has appealed to Catholics to “fast from gas” and other fossil fuels during Lent in solidarity with those suffering “cold in Ukraine.”

This week a Catholic prayer app beat out TikTok and other major social media apps in an unlikely Lenten surge.

Pope Francis said Sunday that the devil tempts human beings with three “poisons,” namely attachments, distrust, and power, in order to separate us from God.

The spokesman for the Scottish Catholic Church has warned against an imposed uniformity in the name of diversity that respects sexual orientations while failing to respect “religious orientations.”

Pope Francis reiterated his disbelief in “just war theory” Friday, asserting that “war always diminishes us.”

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, has denounced the ongoing aggression against Catholics by the Nicaraguan regime of dictator Daniel Ortega.

Pope Francis launched an appeal on Ash Wednesday for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine as the first anniversary of the Russian invasion approaches.

Pope Francis’ war on the Traditional Latin Mass continued Tuesday as the pontiff confirmed that no bishop may grant permission for the Mass to be said without an okay from the Vatican.

L.A. police have arrested 65-year-old Carlos Medina in connection with the shooting death of auxiliary bishop David O’Connell.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has sharply criticized the now-retracted FBI report targeting “radical traditionalist” Catholics and their possible ties to the “far-right white nationalist movement.”

Auxiliary bishop David O’Connell of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was shot to death Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed.

Pope Francis has sought to squelch rumors of a possible papal resignation, insisting that he does not have this on his “agenda.”

South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has blasted the European bishops for focusing more on structures and the exercise of power than on Jesus Christ.

An Indiana woman has been found guilty of embezzling more than half a million dollars from the Catholic parish where she worked as a business manager.

The redoubtable Archbishop Charles Chaput said last week that President Joe Biden’s aggressive abortion advocacy mimics the devil’s temptations of Jesus in the desert.

ROME — Bishops from around the world have condemned the heightened persecution of Christians by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega.

Pope Francis voiced his “sadness” Sunday over the imprisonment of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who has been sentenced to 26 years of jail time by the regime of dictator Daniel Ortega.

A Canadian Catholic school pupil who was suspended last November for saying there are only two genders was arrested this week after attempting to return to class without renouncing his beliefs.

The Bishops of the European Union (COMECE) have denounced the “systematic persecution” of the Catholic Church by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, demanding the release of Bishop Rolando Álvarez.

The Nicaraguan government of dictator Daniel Ortega has found Bishop Rolando Álvarez guilty of treason for his criticism of the regime, sentencing him to 26 years and 4 months in prison.

Pope Benedict’s final book was published several weeks after his December 31st death, following instructions from the late pontiff himself.

The FBI is retracting a leaked document announcing an investigation into “radical traditionalist” Catholics and their possible ties to the “far-right white nationalist movement,” following vocal backlash.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has denounced recent attacks by President Joe Biden’s FBI on what it calls “radical-traditionalist Catholics.”

A judge in Nicaragua sentenced four Catholic priests to ten years in prison on “treason” and “fake news” charges on Monday, the latest salvo on the Sandinista regime’s ongoing war against the Catholic Church.

A junior in Catholic high school has been suspended for the remainder of the year for protesting the use of the girls’ bathroom by biological males.

Pope Francis asserted Sunday that the sale of weapons is the “biggest plague” the world faces today.

Pope Francis returned to the issue of homosexuality Sunday, insisting that while gay sex is a sin, capital punishment for those with homosexual tendencies “is not right.”

San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy has dug his heels in defending homosexuality, insisting that the Catholic Catechism should be modified to offer a more positive view of gay sex.

Prominent Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has denounced the abandonment of Biblical morality on human life and sexuality by many churches in recent times.

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester has blasted a new Minnesota abortion law as “morally outrageous” and “the worst kind of barbarism.”

The head of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), Archbishop Timothy Broglio, has publicly corrected President Biden’s misrepresentation of the position of Church leaders on the matter of taxpayer-funded abortion.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue slammed President Joe Biden Tuesday for his “monumental ignorance of basic Catholic teachings.”