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The United States bishops launched a prayer campaign Tuesday for an end to abortion, marking the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion on demand the law of the land.

The Sandinista regime of Nicaragua announced on Sunday that it had struck a deal with the Vatican to expel 19 Catholic clergymen imprisoned for their faith, including Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, a firm regime critic sentenced to 26 years in prison for opposing communism.

Pope Francis asserted Sunday that not only unjust wars but war itself is always a “crime against humanity.”

The Michigan Catholic community is rallying around six young children whose parents were killed by a wrong-way driver in a stolen vehicle.

Pope Francis met with a group of Marxists in the Vatican and exhorted them not to let up in their pursuit of dialogue with Christians.

Pope Francis offered an extended reflection on the sin of gluttony Wednesday, calling it “the most dangerous vice” because it is “killing the planet.”

Writings from the Vatican’s controversial doctrinal czar exploring intimate details of male and female orgasm has been dubbed the last straw for his meteoric but scandal-ridden career.

ROME — The head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office has dug in his heels in the face of growing opposition to his controversial decision to allow the blessing of gay couples.

Communist Nicaragua marked 500 days since imprisoning Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez on Tuesday by publishing photos of an alleged “medical examination” on the Catholic leader.

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has chosen “diversity in the Church” as his prayer intention for the month of January 2024.

Pope Francis has met with stiff opposition from black Christian leaders after approving the blessing of gay couples.

Catholics are rebelling against their religious leaders’ pro-migration policies, and leadership must set them straight, Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, states.

Nicaraguan police on Thursday detained two senior Catholic priests for the “crime” of praying in public for Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a critic of socialist dictator Daniel Ortega, who in February was sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

Peter Seewald, close friend and collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI, said Thursday that Benedict was “stabbed in the heart” by Pope Francis’ attacks on the traditional Latin Mass.

Pope Francis made “peace” the theme of his 2023 Christmas message, urging the world to say “no” to weapons.

Millions of Nicaraguans will spend Christmas under the growing repression of communist dictator Daniel Ortega, who has arrested and banished members of the Catholic Church, prohibited Catholic festivities, and intimidated Christians into silence.

American Archbishop Charles Chaput has sharply criticized Pope Francis for sowing confusion and ambiguity as well as for his “unjust” criticism of U.S. Catholics.

A Catholic parish in southern Italy has exhibited a Nativity scene featuring the Virgin Mary together with another woman in place of Saint Joseph.

Nicaragua arrested 11 Evangelical leaders and launched an investigation into three Americans on Wednesday.

ROME — Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, has issued a searing critique of the Vatican’s recent text allowing the blessing of homosexual couples.

The communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua arrested Monsignor Isidro del Carmen Mora Ortega, the bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, on Wednesday shortly after he presided over a Mass in which he prayed for another imprisoned bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

Denver’s Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston defied his party’s usual obsession with “separation of church and state” and announced he is joining forces with the Denver Archdiocese to help care for hundreds of illegal aliens flooding the Mile High City and putting more than a million dollars of tax money into the deal.

The President of the Austrian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has declared that priests may not refuse to bless gay couples, just two days after the Vatican permitted the practice for the first time.

Pro-LGBT Catholics like Jesuit Father James Martin have lauded the Vatican’s allowance of blessings for gay couples as “a huge step forward.”

The Vatican has reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be “offered to all without requiring anything.”

The government of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were emphatic Monday in rejecting a claim by Pope Francis that Israeli forces were responsible for the deaths of two civilians near a church in Gaza.

Pope Francis used his strongest language to date in condemning ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, calling them acts of “terrorism.”

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the former number three man in the Vatican, has been found guilty of three counts of embezzlement by a Vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half years of prison.

Emmanuel Macron is facing outrage over plans to replace historic stained glass windows with modern verisions in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

Pope Francis said Monday that immigrants are helping to replace Italy’s falling population and urged Italians to welcome them as their own children.

The Vatican’s former doctrinal czar Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller warned that globalists are weaponizing mass migration to destroy the national identity of countries.

Wray said during an exchange with Hawley that employees involved in the creation of the memo have been “admonished,” but not fired.

Pope Francis has signed an interfaith statement asserting that humanity faces a “global climate crisis” that demands phasing out fossil fuels.

The creators of the Catholic meditation and prayer app Hallow defended their partnership with pro-abortion actor Liam Neeson after backlash.

Pope Francis asserted Sunday that the global climate crisis is “a religious problem” whose roots lie in humanity’s “presumption of self-sufficiency.”

Pope Francis sent a message Saturday to the COP28 U.N. climate summit decrying the “unbridled exploitation” of the environment by first world nations.