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Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Saturday that the Russian war on Ukraine is a “barbarity” and called for an immediate ceasefire.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue slammed President Biden’s reductive idea of women’s rights Wednesday, underscoring his sell-out to the progressive wing of his party.

Armed gunmen identified only as “terrorists” broke into a church in Kaduna, Nigeria Tuesday and kidnapped the Catholic priest, Father Joseph Aketeh.

Pope Francis called for prayers Tuesday for a more humane bioethics that recognizes and defends the dignity of human embryos.

His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), called for closed skies over Ukraine Monday to block Russian cruise missiles that are wreaking havoc on the population.

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis has dispatched two cardinals to Poland and Hungary to assist Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.

The Chairman of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, has urged the Catholic Church to change its teaching on sexual morality, insisting that gay sex does not harm a person’s relationship with God.

Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date to condemn the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine, calling for an end to the assault and the establishment of humanitarian corridors for those fleeing.

The Vatican prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, denounced Russia’s “unjustified invasion” of Ukraine this week at a liturgy at the Cathedral of Saints Sergius and Bacchus of the Ukrainians in Rome.

Pope Francis urged couples again on Saturday to consider adopting children, insisting that today’s world needs “fatherhood and tenderness” more than ever.

The great sickness of the modern age is “indifference,” Pope Francis asserted Friday, or the tendency to “look away” rather than address the needs of others.

The Vatican’s ambassador to Georgia and Armenia said Thursday that the Georgian people fear they will be Russia’s next target for invasion.

First Lady Jill Biden tried to interrupt President Joe Biden on Wednesday after he started getting into a debate with a reporter about abortion.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have reacted to the Senate’s decisive defeat of the Democrat-sponsored Women’s Health Protection Act, calling the outcome a “tremendous relief.”

Pope Francis condemned the modern “cult of speed” Wednesday, urging his hearers to learn how to “waste time.”

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin told Italian journalists late Sunday that the Holy See is ready to “facilitate negotiations” between Russia and Ukraine.

Pope Francis spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi by phone to convey his deepest sympathies, the Ukrainian Embassy to the Holy See reported Saturday evening.

Pope Francis called once again for peace in Ukraine Sunday, insisting that “God is with the peacemakers.”

Pope Francis sent out tweets Friday condemning war as a failure of humanity, complete with translations into Russian and Ukrainian.

Pope Francis visited the Russian Federation Embassy to the Holy See Friday where “he expressed his concerns over the war in Ukraine,” reported L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s daily newspaper.

The Holy See Press Office announced Friday that Pope Francis has cancelled plans to travel to Florence this Sunday due to “acute gonalgia” or knee pain.

The pro-life office of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has launched a letter-writing campaign in opposition to the Democrat-sponsored Women’s Health Protection Act.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have blasted proposed legislation that would codify abortion rights into federal law, insisting that abortion is “the opposite of health care and is an extreme violation of human rights.”

The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lamented Thursday that the “tragic scenarios that everyone feared are becoming a reality” with the onset of Russian incursions into Ukraine.

Pope Francis has called on Christians to uproot evil from their lives this Lent, including the addiction to digital media that “impoverishes human relationships.”

Pope Francis warned Wednesday of a growing trend to treat elderly people as “waste material” to be discarded rather than as precious members of society.

Pope Francis warned Wednesday of a breakdown of international law because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Liberal Jesuit Catholic priest Father James Martin has come under fire for appearing to defend puberty blockers in children who identify as transgender.

The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch blasted Lebanon’s leaders Sunday, accusing them of destroying the country by their failure to govern.

Pope Francis sent his “heartfelt condolences” Friday to the families of the victims of a shipwreck that occurred off the coast of Canada, leaving several dead.

Pope Francis condemned the “unjustifiable and deplorable” murder of a young Congolese priest by presumed Islamic terrorists.

The Catholic bishop of Kiev, Vitalii Kryvytskyi, has warned of negative side effects for the people of Ukraine from irresponsible news stories stoking fears of war with Russia.

A Paris criminal court opened trial Monday for the case of Father Jacques Hamel, a Catholic priest whose throat was slit by two Islamic terrorists in July 2016.

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF) warns of a creeping secularism within the Catholic Church, the National Catholic Register reported Friday.

A gang of some 30 Islamic terrorists stormed a Catholic seminary in eastern Burkina Faso the night of February 10, burning two dormitories and destroying a crucifix.

Pope Francis has warned a Catholic spirituality center in Panama of “temptations” to distort the Gospel message, such as what happened to those who gave way to Marxism in the 1970s.