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“We have experienced many disasters, and we will survive with God’s help,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said in an interview. “The mechanisms of the hybrid war waged against …
Read MoreRoberta Metsola, a Maltese lawmaker who said in 2015 that she was “categorically against abortion,” has been elected president of the European Parliament.
“She is a brilliant person who will certainly be able to fulfil this import…
Read MoreUnidentified gunmen murdered Father Richard Masivi, a recently ordained priest, as he was driving back to his parish on the evening of February 2. Father Masivi ministered in North Kivu (map), a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has…
Read MoreBestowing a national honor on a leading Russian Orthodox official, President Vladimir Putin inducted Metropolitan Hilarion into the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you give to the…
Read More100 Christians held a protest in the village of Padrishibpur in southern Bangladesh following the murdered of Malkam D’Costa, whose son testified against a Muslim man accused of rape. The South Asian nation of 164 million (map)—the world’s …
Read MoreThe percentage of US diocesan priests who are retired has grown from 14% in 1980, to 27% in 2000, to 34% in 2020.
The majority of diocesan priests in Milwaukee, Albany, Green Bay, and Portland (Maine) are retired, according to the Pillar’s ov…
Read More“Neglecting quality education, impeding critical thinking and seizing universities are ways of concentrating irrational power, subjugating people, and stealing their futures,” said Auxiliary Bishop Silvio José Báez of Managua, in …
Read MoreA Synodal Assembly of the German Catholic Church has voted overwhelmingly to endorse a call for the ordination of women, setting the stage for a direct confrontation with the Vatican and the universal Church.
Sweeping aside objections from a minority …
Vietnamese government officials have said that the man who brutally murdered Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh on January 29 was “mentally unstable.” But some Vietnamese Catholics fear that the killing may have been intended as a warning, to …
Read MoreFather Arnaldo Sanchez Catalan, who has been serving as the Vatican’s chargé d’affaires in Taipei, has been named the apostolic nuncio to Rwanda; he will be ordained as an archbishop next week as he takes on his new assignment.
Althou…
Robert McWilliams former priest serving a prison term for child sexual abuse, died on February 4 in an apparent suicide.
McWilliams was a priest of the Cleveland diocese, who in 2021 pleaded guilty to federal charges of child exploitation and child tr…
A new study of Ukrainian Orthodox believers has found a sharp increase in the number who identify with the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, rather than the competitive body allied with the Moscow patriarchate.
In 2020, a study by the Razumkov Ce…
A Chinese government newspaper published four separate articles in January charging that Cardinal Joseph Zen stirred up student protests in Hong Kong in 2019.
The 90-year-old cardinal, now retired as Bishop of Hong Kong, is well known for his criticis…
“The next schism in Christendom is just around the corner,” warns a statement issued by a German Catholic group, the “New Beginning” initiative, in an alert about the radical changes suggested by the German hierarchy in its &ldq…
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Emmaus Road has recently published two new books on current culture and how to navigate as Christians in this strange and rapidly secularized world. Both are worth a read. My mom is now 100 years old and told me she doesn’t like the changes in our country. She doesn’t like what America has become: abortion, […]
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