The Vatican issued a decree on October 22 guiding bishops’ conferences on the proper protocol for the translation of liturgical texts from Latin into vernacular languages. Published on Oct. 22, the feast of St. John Paul II, the decree, called Postquam Summus...
A Pew Research poll predicts that, based on current trends, the number of Muslims worldwide will be nearly equal to the number of Christians by 2050. In conversations, you might hear this statement as proof that Islam is growing and other religions (such as...
Catholics numbered 1,344,403,000 as of 31 December 2019, up by 15,410,000 over the previous year, while the world popu-lation stood at 7,577,777,000, up by 81,383,000 over the same period, Agenzia Fides reported to mark the 95th World Mission Day, which will be...
Eleven people from Afghanistan are among the 27 adults who will soon be baptized as Catholics in Austria’s Vienna archdiocese. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna formally welcomed the candidates for adult baptism at a ceremony on Oct. 20 at a Carmelite church in...
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, England – once the see of English martyr St John Fisher – and a champion of persecuted Christians in Islamic countries, has joined the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. “I write to let you know of my...
