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In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis praised Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on contraception. Emphasizing that confessors should be...
Pope Francis has written a letter to families asking them to pray for the upcoming Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will be devoted to “pastoral challenges to the family...
In his first major structural reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, Pope Francis has created a new Secretariat for the Economy, which will supervise the financial affairs of all Vatican...
53% of Americans-- including 58% of white Catholics and 56% of Latino Catholics-- now support same-sex marriage, according to a survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute. In...
Over the opposition of gay advocacy organizations, both houses of the Arizona legislature have passed a measure expanding religious freedom protections in the state. The bill extends religious...
Pope Francis has sent a seven-minute video message to a Pentecostal gathering sponsored by Kenneth Copeland Ministries. During the message, the Pope emphasized that Christians are brothers and...
Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa has decreed that no eulogies are to be delivered at funeral Masses. “In the Christian funeral, we gather not to praise the deceased, but to pray for...
Two religious sisters who serve in the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas were beaten as they tried to tend to persons wounded in a violent land dispute, according to Mexican media reports. In...
A 50-year-old evangelical pastor was brutally murdered in Kankia, a city of 150,000 in a largely Muslim region of northern Nigeria. After the body of a murdered six-year-old girl was found close...
A 20-year-old man recently set his home on fire, crashed his car into a Raleigh parish, set fire to the sanctuary, and then killed himself by gunshot, according to a Raleigh television station...
