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A cat is stranded in the colonnade surrounding St. Peter’s Square.

Cat-astrophe averted: Vatican firefighters save feline stuck on colonnade above St. Peter’s Square

Feb 15, 2022

By Hannah Brockhaus

Several earlier attempts to rescue the feline were unsuccessful. Read more

Margaret from The Pope's Cat looking out on the Square. Illustration by Roy Deleon, courtesy of Paraclete Press.

The Pope's Cat: New book series introduces kids to papal office, Rome

Mar 18, 2018

By Mary Farrow

Margaret, the fictional stray cat adopted by a fictional Pope in a new children’s book series, gets an up-close and... Read more

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The spiritual shepherd of the Church in Singapore is Cardinal William Goh, archbishop since early 2013 and a cardinal since 2022.

Cardinal Goh of Singapore: ‘Deep encounter with Jesus’ is key to passing on the faith

Oviedo Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes accused the government of focusing "in a biased and manipulative way on the problem of pedophilia as something attributable only to the Catholic Church."

Spanish archbishop slams government’s obsession with the Catholic Church

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Florida issues emergency rules to combat Biden abortion ‘misinformation’ 

Fertility rose at the end of the Depression and the end of World War II with the baby boom, to more than 3.5 births for every woman by 1960 — then plummeted immediately thereafter.

What is causing our fertility crisis? Catholic experts weigh in

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Trump polls ahead of Biden among Catholic voters with shift in Hispanic vote

Pope Francis meets with 300 priests taking part in the World Meeting of Parish Priests on May 2, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis tells world’s parish priests: The Church could not go on without you

Father Paul Tatu Mothobi, a member the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (CSS/ Stigmatines) and former Media and Communications Officer of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), was found dead of gunshot wounds in South Africa, on April 27, 2024.

Priest shot dead in South Africa; Catholic bishops there decry ‘pandemic’ of murder

Pope Francis shared a stage with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on May 12, 2023, to speak at a two-day conference on “The General State of the Birth Rate,” held at Conciliazione Auditorium close to the Vatican.

Pope Francis to speak at event on Italy’s record-low birth rate

Thousands of pilgrims come together each year to take part in the annual Walk to Mary, which takes place on the first Saturday of May in Wisconsin. The 21-mile pilgrimage starts at the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere, Wisconsin, and ends at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wisconsin.

Walk to Mary pilgrimage brings thousands to ‘grounds where Mary appeared’

God “is our peace” and “prayer leads us to meet him,” said the archbishop of Bogotá, Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio.

Colombian bishops call for day of prayer for peace, reconciliation in violence-torn country

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