As the West Abandons Catholicism, One Continent Thrives — By: Church Militant

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Vatican news agency report is revealing how Africa’s Catholic population surge is holding the Church together. Agenzia Fides, the Vatican’s news agency and part of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, released its 2023 Catholic Church Statistics, which documents a decline in most areas of the Church outside of Africa. …

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Remembering the Hungarian Revolutionaries of 1956 — By: Church Militant

BUDAPEST, Hungary (ChurchMilitant.com) – Hungarians all over the world are remembering the brave men and women who, in 1956, gave their lives and livelihoods to fight for freedom. Thousands of people marched in Budapest today, Oct. 23, in a torchlight procession commemorating the country’s revolution and war of independence. They marched from the University of Technology to Bem Square,…

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Theologian points to Vatican II’s ‘dynamic’ tradition in Synod on Synodality speech — By: Catholic News Agency

Australian theologian Father Ormond Rush addresses the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 23, 2023, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media livestream Vatican City, Oct 23, 2023 / 14:44 pm (CNA). Vatican II’s discussion of tradition is the authority for the Synod on Synodality’s reflections today, a theologian…

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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem mourns 18 dead in Gaza Christian Church bombing — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, on Oct. 20, 2023. / Credit: Gianfranco Pinto Ostuni Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 23, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, last week lamented the deaths of 18 Palestinians in a missile strike on the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius…

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