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Vatican News reports that “The Vatican’s Central Office of Church Statistics releases the 2025 Pontifical Yearbook providing details about the number of Catholics, consecrated religious, priests, and bishops throughout the world.” The statistics that are given in the Annuarium Statisticum … Continue reading → The post Global Catholic Population Rises Slightly While Priestly Vocations Decrease,…
We may sometimes wonder if our prayers are being heard by God. The deeper question we are wise to ask first, is if we are truly aware of Who we are talking to when we pray. St. Teresa of Avila would advise her sisters that “a prayer in which a person is not aware of…
In the first part of this series I introduced the brief prayer, doce me passionem Tuam—teach me Your suffering—a simple aspiration we can say many times a day. I also suggested that to help us go deeper into the meaning of this prayer, I would publish here during Holy Week a prayer for Consecration to…
What happens to us when we become experts at identifying the sins of others? Today, Jesus tells us. Gospel (Read Lk. 13:1-9) St. Luke describes an episode in which “some people” who were among the crowds following Jesus were eager to tell Him about two tragic current events. Pilate, probably in putting down an attempt…
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Reading 1 Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons,for he was the child of his old age;and he had made him a long tunic.When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons,they hated him so much that they would not even greet him. One day,…
WASHINGTON – In response to the Executive Order signed today by President Trump, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) offered the following statement from its spokesperson, Chieko Noguchi, executive director of public affairs: “While the USCCB does not take a position on the institutional structure…
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Washington, DC (Lepanto Institute) – A new report by the Lepanto Institute reveals that the two largest publishers of Catholic hymnals in the United States, Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) and GIA Publishing, are fleecing parishes in the United States with annual … Continue reading → The post Pay-to-Pray: Fresh Report Shows How Pro-Aborts and Homosexuals are…
Patrick Delaney has penned a barn-burner of a news analysis piece for LifeSiteNews on the religious and ideological background to the atrocities ongoing in Gaza. What needs to be known up front is that, though the racist and predatory views … Continue reading → The post Extremist Israeli Rabbis Instruct Gaza-Bound Soldiers to Kill Palestinian…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church needs to expand its safeguarding efforts to include the new threats and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence, top organizers of a Vatican conference said. “We are really currently in a war” on two fronts when it comes to protecting children from abuse and mistreatment, Joachim von Braun, president…
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Legend has him an Irishman noted for his military feats who was convinced by his sister St. Fanchea to renounce his warring activities and marry. When he found his fiancee dead, he decided to become a monk and went on pilgrimage to Rome, where he was ordained. He returned to Ireland, built churches at Drogheda,…
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