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Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (Ireland), Alphonsus Cullinan

Irish bishop warns of “new culture trying to undo truths of Christianity from the ground up”

Empty pews in Ireland (stock)

Tensions boil over in Irish Church as priests, laypeople beg bishops for real reform

A priest holds a baby as clergy and indigenous people wait for the arrival of Pope Francis in Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios province, Peru

Optional celibacy in the Amazon: the “end” of the Church?

Bishop of Erfurt (Germany), Ulrich Neymeyr

German bishop fires back at Benedict-Sarah: priestly celibacy “not an unchangeable law”

A man and a woman sitting together in a church (stock)

Austrian Church faces mass exodus: 68,000 Catholics left in 2019

Consecration of the world's youngest Catholic bishop, Stepan Sus, in the Ukraine

For the future of the Catholic Church… look to the Ukraine

Baptism (stock)

Plunge in Catholic baptisms in Switzerland as tradition takes on water

A priest saying the Mass (stock)

Sicilian archbishop reminds Benedict, Sarah that Francis is pope: he makes the decisions on celibacy

A Mass in Warsaw, Poland

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

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin

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