In an audience granted by Pope Leo XIV on October 24, to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the promulgation was authorized of the decrees on the martyrdom of Polish priests between 1941 and 1942 "out of hatred for the faith," in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps, and of Czech diocesan priests murdered between 1951 and 1952.

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At issue is the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, introduced by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu nationalist government

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The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, which supervises the Church’s complex processes of beatification and canonization, reacted swiftly to the judgment, describing it as a “necessary act of justice.”

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The numbers may be modest, but the implications are far-reaching. For years, sociologists and church leaders alike have worried that Christianity in America was entering a phase of irreversible decline

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When Pope John Paul II visited Romania in 1999 — the first papal visit to an Orthodox-majority country since the Great Schism — he donated $200,000 to support the construction of the future national cathedral. The funds were later used to help purchase the cathedral’s bells, manufactured in Austria and blessed in 2018

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With the placement of the lower arm, the tower of Jesus of the Holy Family church reaches a height of 162.91 meters

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What might have been a purely cultural act has instead ignited one of the oldest and most persistent tensions in Spanish public life: the uneasy intersection between national history, religion, and secular politics.

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Address of the Pope to students participating in the Jubilee of the world of education

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At the top of the list stands Alabama, which received an 86 percent score and was praised for its robust legal framework safeguarding religious autonomy. Michigan, on the other hand, ranked last with just 22 percent, described by the report as “one of the most difficult environments in the nation for faith-based nonprofits.”

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At a press conference held at the Catholic University of Korea, Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick, president of the Local Organizing Committee, described the event as “a declaration of faith and hope, and a solemn commitment to the youth of the world

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By Lavoisier Fernandes – Synodality has always been a core foundation of the Catholic Church, but in recent years, it has gained renewed focus, particularly

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# chhotebhai – On 30th October my wife and I sat to watch the last two hours of the semi-final match between India and Australia

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