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1 in 2 young Swedish Christians humiliated or hurt for their faith - report

1 in 2 young Swedish Christians “humiliated or hurt” for their faith: Churches’ report

A man kisses the Pope during the General Audience Wednesday 19 February

Pope insists on World Social Justice Day on “rights” and “immense dignity” of poor and abandoned

Ultraconservative Polish Catholics draft 'discipline and punish' law to rein in 'liberal, leftist' academics

Ultraconservative Polish Catholics draft “discipline and punish” law to rein in “liberal, leftist” universities

'Querida Amazonía', the Pope's post-Amazon Synod exhortation

‘Querida Amazonía’: 7 of the Pope’s most powerful political statements, beyond the Church debates

Pope's 'global compact on education' - Francis calls for 'covenant' to form 'more fraternal world'

Pope’s “global compact on education”: Francis calls for “covenant” to form “more fraternal world”

Irish elections 2020

Irish elections: Bishops demand answers on homelessness, environment, intolerance, youth

COMECE-CEC delegation meets with the Croatian EU Presidency

EU bishops “annoyed” not to have been included in new Brussels Conference on future of Europe

A Mass in Warsaw, Poland

Polish Bishops say Mass attendance stable at just over one-in-three Catholics

Pope Francis January 12 during the Angelus prayer

Francis: “The good disciple is the humble one, the meek one, the one who does good without making a show”

Pope Francis January 9 in his 'State of the World' address

Pope denounces world’s “very weak” response to climate change “a source of grave concern”

School chaplain sign

Irish Government accused of opacity, discrimination over public millions for chaplains in State secondary schools

Women at prayer in Mass (stock)

Spanish Catholic women decry rise in Church misogyny due to “huge lack of female presence” in seminaries

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin

Dublin archbishop decries rise in Ireland of groups “clearly populist and racist”

Satanism (stock)

Veteran Italian exorcist blames secularisation for rise in “aggressive Satanism”

Francis December 20 with students at a Roman high school

Francis takes aim (again) at proselytism: “We’re not in the time of the Crusades”

Francis in an audience December 9 with the community of the Pontifical Benedict XV Flaminian Regional Seminary of Bologna

Francis warns seminarians against clericalism: “Where there is rigidity there are serious problems”

Pope Francis Saturday December 7 with a participant in the World Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs

Pope urges Catholic NGOs to be on “frontiers” of human rights fights

National University of Ireland Galway

Authorities mum as Irish universities funnel millions in public money to Churches in no-tender chaplaincy contracts

A girl at her First Communion (stock)

Dublin archbishop wants parents, not schools, to prepare children for communion

Croatian religion teacher Marin Miletic

Croatian religion teacher unlikely hero of public education strike

A priest celebrating the Mass (illustrative)

Irish seminary heads defy Vatican ban, welcome (celibate) gay men to priesthood

Religion in schools

Croatian opposition blasts Government for allowing “back door” for Church into school textbooks

Yoga and mindfulness

Irish bishop warns yoga and mindfulness “not suitable” in Catholic schools

Male and female bathroom signs

Polish Bishops accused of complicity in new “Middle Ages” anti-sex ed law

Pierangelo Sequeri, president of the John Paul II Institute in Rome

John Paul II Institute president accuses Francis opponents of setting up parallel Church

New saint John Henry Newman

Dublin archbishop: Ireland has “lost dream” of new saint by shunning theology in universities

Colloquium of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences

More reasons for the John Paul II Institute renovation: “There were 40 professors for 19 students”

John Paul II Institute in Rome

Need more proof the John Paul II Institute renovation was necessary? Try this

Pierangelo Sequeri, president of the John Paul II Institute in Rome

John Paul II Institute president says new study plan proves conservative conspiracies “unfounded”

Vincenzo Paglia, head of Rome's John Paul II Institute

Head of John Paul II Institute in Rome shrugs off conservative criticism