While research points to skepticism regarding a possible Catholic “revival”—following years of steady decrease in the number of faithful as parents struggle to pass down the faith to the new generations—some recent data and reports from Catholic dioceses have suggested growth in some pockets of Catholicism worldwide.
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Catholics express grief, warn of politicizing immigration issue in murder of Loyola student
Catholics in Chicago have expressed sympathy and sorrow over the death of a Loyola University Chicago student who was shot and killed March 19 near the school campus.
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Israel to allow church leaders to celebrate Holy Week, Easter at holy sites, Latin patriarchate says
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said an agreement has been reached with Israeli authorities to allow Holy Week and Easter celebrations to take place at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher after they were initially barred from celebrating Palm Sunday.
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‘Proclaim the Gospel of life,’ Pope Leo says in first papal visit to Monaco in modern era
In the principality known for super yachts and sports cars, Pope Leo XIV urged Monaco’s wealthy citizens to remember the poor and protect every human life, calling on them to remember that the Last Judgment “places the poor at its center.”
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In Monaco, Pope Leo to reflect on peace, faith and ecology in a land of vast wealth
The pope’s one-day trip will spotlight a Catholic state grappling with secularization and a quiet rise in new converts.
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Cardinal Roche: Liturgy meant to promote unity, not personal preference
Debates over the liturgy should ultimately be understood through the lens of unity, not individual preference, said Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
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Marriage or the priesthood? Pope Leo XIV shares advice for discerning one’s vocation
Pope Leo XIV has shared his advice for how to discern one’s vocation, starting with the importance of creating space for interior silence to “hear what the Lord desires for our happiness.”
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Pope Leo calls for ‘generous inclusion’ of those attached to the Latin Mass in letter to French bishops
Pope Leo XIV lamented the divisions surrounding the celebration of the Latin Mass and called on the French bishops’ conference to find solutions that include those attached to the old form of Mass.
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Jesuit priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees as border dynamics change
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Strassburger, S.J., has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and deported migrants.
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Pope Leo taps Australian church lawyer as Vatican’s chief legal expert
Pope Leo XIV has filled one of the most important Vatican vacancies by tapping Bishop Anthony Randazzo, an Australian church lawyer, to serve as the Holy See’s chief legal expert.