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Pope’s General Audience, March 25, 2026, on the Church in its hierarchical structure
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There has been an increase in the number of adult baptisms, rising from 362 in 2024 and over 500 last year to 689 this year.
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Since 2009, more than 1,800 aborted children have received a Christian burial in a Catholic cemetery.
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From the early years of
his priestly formation, he worked to promote evangelization in a country
that, after adopting Communist ideology, showed its aversion to the
Christian faith, causing grave losses to the Church.
Tim Daniels
The findings depict a
society that has moved toward broader acceptance of LGBTQ individuals in
principle, while becoming more divided over how that acceptance should
be expressed in law and public life
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Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s
Minister of Foreign Affairs, has released a video of the fire caused by
the Russian attack on the Monastery, calling on the Director-General of
UNESCO «to respond immediately to this crime in the strongest possible
terms.»
Valentina di Giorgio
The revised text,
presented on March 24, 2026, at the Holy See Press Office, comes 25
years after the Academy’s first intervention on the subject. In that
quarter century, science has advanced dramatically
Valentina di Giorgio
What emerges from this
latest set of documents is not a uniform strategy, but a multifaceted
approach. In some areas, the Church seeks to deepen its capacity to
listen and adapt; in others, it reaffirms boundaries it considers
non-negotiable
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For nearly three decades,
Gosnell operated the Women’s Medical Society clinic, a facility that
would later be described by authorities in terms more often associated
with crime scenes than medical environments
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This position places the
Vatican in direct tension with prevailing practices in several
countries. In Iceland, where prenatal screening is widely offered and
accepted, births of children with Down syndrome have become exceedingly
rare
Covadonga Asturias
The Pope’s intervention
reveals a dual concern: healing wounds without erasing truth, and
preserving unity without suppressing legitimate diversity. Nowhere is
this more evident than in his approach to the question of the Vetus
Ordo—the pre-conciliar form of the Roman rite, often associated with the
Tridentine Mass
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Commenting on the ruling,
Paul Coleman, Executive Director of ADF International, which supported
Räsänen’s legal defence, expressed concern over the “conviction for a
simple church pamphlet published decades ago – before the law under
which she has been convicted was even passed.”
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Among those who do
confess regularly, 83% say their primary motivation is to receive God’s
mercy and forgiveness. Even among those absent from the confessional for
over a year, 75% cite that same reason as what would draw them back.
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Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the 63rd World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2026
Valentina di Giorgio
Having received no
official reply, the group escalated its request in a letter dated March
19, 2026—the solemnity of St. Joseph—and made public days later. In it,
the theologians formally asked the dicastery to issue clarifications or
corrections, arguing that the current text risks disrupting what they
describe as a necessary “hermeneutic of continuity” in Marian doctrine
Enrique Villegas
The bishops’ intervention
reflects mounting concern that what began as a policy dispute over
security cooperation has evolved into a multidimensional
crisis—economic, diplomatic, and increasingly social
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