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The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, has urged Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to prioritize welcoming migrants and “ecological transition” in her governing program.

The formidable former archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, said Saturday that President Joe Biden is not in communion with the Catholic Church, warning that any priest who gives him Holy Communion “participates in his hypocrisy.”

Two high-ranking Vatican cardinals have voiced support for the renewal of the controversial 2018 accord between the Holy See and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the naming of bishops.

The tomb of St. Nicholas, who inspired the Christmas legend of Santa Claus, was recently discovered underneath a church in Turkey.

The Vatican has renewed its 2018 accord with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the naming of Catholic bishops in the country, Italian media revealed Wednesday.

Pope Francis offered prayers for “battered” Ukraine Wednesday, enumerating the atrocities suffered by the Ukrainian people at the hands of the Russian army.

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped Father Joseph Igweagu of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, in southern Nigeria, local media reported Monday.

Pope Francis told a group of Spanish businesspeople Monday that today’s world is characterized by “war,” “environmental crisis,” and “economic imbalance.”

The plenary assembly of the European Bishops has called for Russia to lay down its arms and desist in its invasion of Ukraine.

Kyiv’s Catholic Bishop, Vitaliy Krivitskiy, told Italian television this week that Russia’s war on Ukraine has descended into terrorism with the direct targeting of the civilian population.

Pope Francis warned Thursday that Eurocentrism can make people forget about the many armed conflicts taking place outside Ukraine.

Archbishop Gabriele Caccia told the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Vatican Wednesday that nuclear deterrence even without the intent to employ nuclear arms is “immoral.”

Australian Cardinal George Pell has warned that the wayward Catholic Church in Germany will only grow worse without serious corrections from Rome.

Pope Francis warned Catholics against the danger of polarization Tuesday, insisting that such divisions are the work of the devil.

ROME — Pope Francis told a group of young people from Belgium on Monday to be joyful since joy is a hallmark of true Christianity.

Today every Christian is “called to reflect God’s gaze towards our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis declared Monday.

Pope Francis employed some of his strongest language to date Sunday in denouncing Europe’s “scandalous” rejection of migrants.

Pope Francis recalled the “huge tensions” facing the world in the Cold War, suggesting that we are falling into the same predicament again.

The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has written to Prime Minister Liz Truss urging her not to move the U.K. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

The Vatican and Taiwan celebrated 80 years of diplomatic relations this week with a Rome event featuring the Taiwanese ambassador to the Holy See and the Vatican’s foreign minister.

Four Nicaraguan priests, two seminarians, and a cameraman will be tried for the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and spreading false news to the detriment of the Nicaraguan State and society, the national judiciary revealed Tuesday.

Vatican Cardinal Michael Czerny condemned the “reckless” launch of new fossil fuel projects as Europe gears up for a massive fuel shortage this winter.

Pope Francis called upon Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday to put an end to his assault on the people of Ukraine.

The second most powerful leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has blamed Pope Francis for stymying relations with his church through his criticism of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The war going on in Ukraine reflects “imperialisms in conflict,” Pope Francis said in an interview published this week.

After spending a year defending child groomers, the far-left Associated Press has declared the confidential seal of confession a “loophole.”

Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega continued the ongoing attacks of his regime against the Catholic Church on Wednesday by accusing the Catholic Clergy and the Vatican of being a “perfect dictatorship.”

Pope Francis urged Italians on Sunday to have more children while at the same time opening the country’s doors to more migrants, pleading they be “welcomed, accompanied, promoted and integrated.”

The trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen for his support of pro-democracy protests in 2019 has been delayed a week after one of the trial judges tested positive for coronavirus.

Pope Francis again expressed his distress Wednesday over the situation in “tormented” Ukraine, just as Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the specter of nuclear war.

The Flemish Catholic bishops have published a guide for the accompaniment of homosexual persons including a blessing for gay couples, in apparent defiance of a Vatican directive to the contrary.

ROME — The U.S. Catholic Bishops launched National Migration Week Monday just as the number of border arrests of illegal migrants reached a record high of nearly two million.

Armed men suspected to be Ambazonia fighters abducted five priests, a nun, and two parishioners in western Cameroon this weekend and burned their church to the ground.

The international community must make the “ecological commitment” a top priority, Pope Francis said in an interview published Sunday.

The papal envoy to Ukraine, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, reportedly came under gunfire this weekend as he traveled to the front line of battle bringing foodstuffs and other humanitarian aid.

Pope Francis has decided not to protest the Hong Kong trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen, arrested last May for his part in the nation’s pro-democracy movement.