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The Pew Research Center released a report examining religious groups’ levels of education in the United States. The report “Which U.S. religious groups are most highly educated?” found that 35% of U.S. Catholics have received a bachelor’s degree or higher education. The report was based on Pew’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS). The RLS is…
The General Secretariat of the Synod has published a preliminary report urging that women’s “views and assessments” be given due weight in the discernment of candidates for priesthood and warning against seminary models that separate future priests from the ordinary life of the people of God. The text gathers conclusions from a synod study group…
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is urging the State Department to add Turkey to its “Special Watch List” due to “severe violations of religious freedom.” The Feb. 26 recommendation, which USCIRF also made in 2025, follows moves by the European Parliament and European Court of Human Rights in the past month to…
The International Theological Commission has released a new document arguing that “the life of the human being is vocation,” while warning that unprecedented scientific and technological developments must be matched by a corresponding growth in responsibility so that progress is directed toward the good of the person. The text, titled “Quo vadis, humanitas? Thinking Christian…
The Burgos Cathedral in Spain is hosting an exhibition of 44 works by Pablo Picasso titled “Biblical Roots,” which explores the biblical essence and Christian origins present in the Spanish painter’s work. Among those attending the March 2 opening of the exhibit were Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and…
An outspoken parish preservation group in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, says it is appealing to the Holy See over what it claims is Bishop Michael Fisher’s “ineffective and harmful” leadership there. Save Our Buffalo Churches said in a Feb. 26 press statement that it would pursue a “papal petition” against Fisher and his…
A new Vatican stamp issue honoring Ukrainian Catholics marks three major milestones for the Catholic Church in Ukraine, even as the country continues to endure the ongoing war. The stamp features the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv, depicted rising amid the darkness of blackouts caused by Russian bombardments —…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Wednesday that the Church cannot be understood solely from a human perspective, but rather as the fruit of God’s plan of love for humanity realized in Christ. He also emphasized that this does not imply the spiritual superiority of the Church’s members. “An ideal and pure Church, separated…
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza once imagined a life of prayer as a nun; instead, she became one of Rwanda’s most prominent opposition leaders. Her outspoken career has led her back to prison as her second trial begins this week. Before becoming a critic of the Rwandan government, Umuhoza was “a wife and a mother, with no…
A Catholic counseling formation center will open in Arizona this fall as a project of the University of Mary and the Diocese of Phoenix. The Photina Center for Catholic Counseling will offer in-person courses for the University of Mary’s Catholic Anthropology Certificate and limited courses in the master of science in counseling as well as…
