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GERMANY 🇩🇪 The Catholic Church lost a further HALF A MILLION members in 2025, according to latest stats from the German Bishops Office

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BREAKING Pope Leo XIV has convened a special meeting with Presidents of Episcopal Conferences from around the world today discuss how to preach the Gospel to families It will take place in October

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BREAKING The House of Lords voted this evening to ALLOW for ABORTION UP TO BIRTH without prosecution in England and Wales The EXTREME law has removed all protections for babies late into pregnancy

'Joseph was freely preferred from all eternity to all other men to whom the Lord could have given the same gifts and the same fidelity to prepare them for so exceptional a vocation' Reginald Garrigou Lagrange OP

'When God chooses a person by grace for a very elevated mission, He gives all the graces required for it' Saint Bernardine of Siena on Saint Joseph

BREAKING 🇮🇪 Irish Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan has called out the removal of Christianity from Irish history in Saint Patrick's Day rhetoric: 'What self-respecting country would really claim that their greatest asset was multiculturalism? The Chinese or Russians and many others would laugh at this. Surely if I go to France I want to find a French country. Or go to London and find it English'

BREAKING 🇻🇦 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇱🇧 In a dramatic intervention, Cardinal Parolin has called on the USA and Israel to IMMEDIATELY end the war The Vatican Secretary of State was asked what he would say if he met President Donald Trump face to face and replied: 'to put an end to it as soon as possible, because the real danger is that an escalation is just around the corner. I would say: leave Lebanon alone…' He then also said that the same message should be addressed to the Israelis to: 'resolve any problems that may exist—or that they believe exist—through the peaceful paths of diplomacy and dialogue' [Vatican News]

SPAIN 🇪🇸 Every year during Holy Week, Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas travels to his hometown in Malaga to participate in the Virgin de las Lágrimas y Favores procession on Palm Sunday with his Catholic brotherhood

JERUSALEM The Holy Sepulchre, the site of the burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, has been CLOSED for weeks now Earlier this week, shrapnel of a rocket from Iran landed hundreds of yards from the church

'The abuse and manipulation of God’s name to justify this and any other war is the gravest sin we can commit at this time. War is first and foremost political and has very material interests, like most wars. We must do everything we can to leave no room for this pseudo-religious language, which speaks not of God, but of ourselves' Cardinal Pizzaballa

BREAKING 🇻🇦 🇫🇷 Pope Leo XIV has met this morning with Dom Thomas Georgeon, Abbot of the Abbey of La Trappe, France, and some the monks It was announced last week that the monks were considering shutting their famous monastery after 900 years

On the last Sunday of July each year, tens of thousands of Irish walk up Croagh Patrick Many do it BAREFOOT The Pilgrimage is in the footsteps of Saint Patrick, who fasted for 40 days and nights atop it A church at the summit hosts Mass during the day