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New poll finds 4 in 10 non-Catholic Latinos were once Catholic and left

A new NBC News/Telemundo poll focusing on the Latino electorate found that 41% of Latinos who do not currently claim Catholicism as their religion said they had previously been Catholic. Jonathan Calvillo, an assistant professor of Latinx studies at Emory’s Candler School of Theology, said the flip side of that statistic is just as important: […]

Knights of Malta Consider Quitting Church

Knights across the world are considering leaving the Catholic Church because of Pope Francis’ reforms, the former grand chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta revealed. In a confidential letter obtained by Church Militant, Albrecht von Boeselager lamented that many confreres had expressed to him “their great dis-appointment in the Holy Father – they […]

Vatican cardinal cancels trip amid backlash over synodal way remarks

A Vatican cardinal cancelled a weekend visit to Germany after reportedly receiving threats re-lated to his recent remarks about the country’s “synodal way.” Cardinal Kurt Koch was due to celebrate Mass and give a lecture on Oct. 2 in the southern German city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. He was also expected to celebrate Mass in the […]

Synodal way has no power “to compel the bishops …to adopt new ways of governance” German bishops’ ad limina visit

Germany’s bishops are meeting in Fulda, a town in the centre of the country, this week ahead of a crucial trip to the Vatican. Their fall plenary meeting, which began on September 26, is dedicated to two major themes: the controversial “synodal way” and the bishops’ November ad limina visit to Rome. The stakes are […]

Pope Francis asks businesses to support working women: They’re ‘afraid to get pregnant’

Pope Francis is stressing the importance of accommodating pregnant women as employees — and calling on the business world to find a solution. “Please, this is a problem for working women: Study it, see how to make sure that a pregnant woman can go on, both with the child she is expecting and with her […]

Pope Francis on papal plane: ‘I’m always ready to go to China’

Pope Francis told journalists on the papal plane on September 13 that he is ready for the first papal trip to China. In a conversation with reporters on the flight from Rome to Kazakhstan on Sept. 13, the pope said: “I’m al-ways ready to go to China.” Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit […]

How this religious order’s foundress found peace in the Catholic Church

Mother Olga grew up in war-torn Iraq but found peace within the Catholic Church, establishing a new religious order to share Christ’s light with others. Montse Alvarado, host of EWTN News In-Depth, recently spoke to the foundress of the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth about her childhood in war-torn Iraq, her steadfast devotion to Our […]

Study: Christianity may lose majority, plurality status in U.S. by 2070

If trends of the past 30 years continue for the next 50, Christianity will lose its majority status in the United States by 2070, according to a new demographic study by the Pew Research Centre. If those trends, first identified in 1990, accelerate over the next half-century, Christianity will have fewer adherents than Americans who […]

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