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Oct 1, 2025
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin declined on Tuesday a lifetime achievement award he was scheduled to receive from the Archdiocese of Chicago’s office of human dignity and...
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Sep 17, 2025
Chinese authorities have issued new rules governing the online conduct of religious leaders in the country, banning unauthorized streaming of liturgies, children’s catechesis,...
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Sep 11, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has suppressed two dioceses in mainland China, and erected a new diocese with a new bishop, the Vatican announced September 10, a move suggesting a new level of...
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Jul 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem have strongly condemned the shelling Thursday of the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza.
While the Israeli government has said that...
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May 29, 2025
The Bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina is expected to release new policies governing the ordinary celebration of the Mass in his diocese, local sources say, but a recently leaked...
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May 22, 2025
The Catholic University of America laid off 66 employees Monday, as the university aims to address a $30 million deficit announced to university stakeholders in December.
While the...
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May 20, 2025
The Vatican announced Monday the appointment of Cardinal Baldo Reina as grand chancellor of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences,...
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Apr 30, 2025
The Chinese mainland Diocese of Xinxiang has “elected” a local priest to become its new bishop, it was announced yesterday, despite the death of Pope Francis on April 21...
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Apr 25, 2025
When Pope Francis is laid to rest at the Basilica of St. Mary Major Saturday, he will be the first pope since Leo XIII to be buried somewhere other than St. Peter’s...
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Apr 15, 2025
The Dicastery for Clergy issued a decree on Palm Sunday clarifying and revising the norms around offerings for Mass intentions.
The decree — which was approved in...
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Apr 8, 2025
The Holy See pension fund had an unfunded liability of almost 1.5 billion euros a decade ago, according to internal Vatican financial reports obtained by The Pillar.
The same...
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Apr 2, 2025
A Michigan family says their 16-year-old daughter received an inexplicable healing last summer, and that it could be a miracle worked through the intercession of Blessed Solanus...
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Mar 21, 2025
When the Church’s Jubilee Year began Christmas Eve, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to receive the plenary indulgences made available through the year — with the pope...
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Jan 30, 2025
Of nearly 150 U.S. Latin Catholic dioceses, only sixteen of them have ordained enough priests in recent years to maintain their current levels of clergy, according to a new study.
In...
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Jan 29, 2025
The prefect of the Vatican’s worship office said this week that when days holy days of obligation are transferred on the Church’s liturgical calendar because of conflict...
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Jan 20, 2025
Catholic apostolate Word on Fire announced this month that its head, Minnesota’s Bishop Robert Barron, intends to “establish a Word on Fire order of priests” that...
