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The number of Catholics in Germany shrank by more than half a million in 2025, leaving just 19.22 million Catholics in the country, according to the latest Church statistics released Monday by the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK). The figure represents a decline from the previous year’s total of roughly 19.77 million, meaning Catholics now make…
Amid deepening political uncertainty and widespread gang violence, a Camillian missionary in Haiti said the country’s upcoming elections offer a fragile hope for renewal, even as the path toward them remains “very vague and very uncertain.” Father Massimo Miraglio, parish priest of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the remote village of Pourcine Pic Makaya,…
The nation’s capital will serve as the halfway point for the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. The Catholic Information Center’s (CIC) Washington, D.C., Eucharistic procession has taken place the past three years, processing through the city’s downtown area near the White House and past the U.S. Capitol….
VATICAN CITY — Ten years after Pope Francis issued a controversial document on families, Pope Leo XIV will meet with bishops from around the world to discuss the text’s application for today. Amoris laetitia, Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, followed two contentious synods at the Vatican dominated by debate over divorce. Pope…
About 1 million people have been displaced over the past 10 days in Lebanon, where the situation continues to deteriorate, according to Marwan Sehnaoui, president of the Sovereign Order of Malta’s Lebanon chapter. “The situation in Lebanon, in Beirut, and all over Lebanon is a catastrophic situation,” Sehnaoui told “EWTN News Nightly” host Veronica Dudo…
President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching an investigation into 13 states for allegedly violating federal conscience protections for those who hold moral or religious objections to abortion. The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced March 19 that its investigation relies on information that those states have allegedly coerced…
Modern popes of the last two centuries — from Pius IX to Francis — have sought the protection and intercession of St. Joseph in times of personal and societal need, elevating his status as a patron for all Catholics. Here’s how some of the popes of the past have contributed to the Church’s devotion to…
Pope Leo XIV sent a video message to the participants of the sixth assembly of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA, by its Spanish acronym). The region is the largest tropical rainforest on the planet, covering an area of approximately 2.59 million square miles shared by nine South American countries. The pontiff lamented the…
A group of Catholic moral theologians and ethicists have filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in federal court in support of Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s insistence that it should be free to use Anthropic’s AI products without restriction, including…
A years-old copyright lawsuit over Catholic hymns saw jurors in Oregon this week receive a crash course in music reading along with a livestreamed performance of the songs at the center of the dispute. The suit, originally filed by American Catholic composer Vincent Ambrosetti in May 2020, accuses songwriter Bernadette Farrell and Oregon Catholic Press…
