After years of uncertainty over whether in-person Mass attenda-nce numbers would ever rebound after plummeting during the COVID-era lockdowns, new data suggests that Mass attendance levels have quietly returned to 2019 levels nearly six years later. Despite the...
Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re and Leonardo Sandri have had their appointments extended as Dean and Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals, respectively. The decision was announced on February 6, by the Vatican Press Office in a statement noting that on January 7, the...
A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on February 07 by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground, according to the Italian news agen-cy ANSA. After throwing the candelabras, the man began...
Caritas Internationalis’ Secretary General, Alistair Dutton, has warned against the decision to close USAID-funded programmes and offices around the world, saying the sudden shutdown “will kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of...
“Land, water, and food are not mere commodities but the very foundation of life and the bond of [indigenous] peoples with nature.” Pope Francis offered that remin-der in a message sent to the 7th Indigenous Peoples’ Forum orga-nized by the UN’s International Fund for...
