
Pope Leo XIV Closes St Peter’s Holy Door, Concluding 2025 Jubilee Year
The Epiphany ceremony and mass marked the close of a year-long period of reflection, penance, and pilgrimage for Catholics worldwide.

The Epiphany ceremony and mass marked the close of a year-long period of reflection, penance, and pilgrimage for Catholics worldwide.

At least 30 people have been killed in the attack that comes less than two months after hundreds of students were kidnapped from a location just 20 km away.

The loss of sacred form goes hand in hand with the erosion of authority, hierarchy, and meaning. Yet precisely because the decline is now so advanced, the conditions for a genuine restoration may be emerging.

This asymmetric prudence reflects an ecclesial climate in which every ‘no’ must justify itself, while every ‘yes’ is welcomed as progress.

‘A preferential option for the poor’ is a pithy phrase that hides the complexity of the Church’s social teaching and also the considerations that lead to better outcomes.

An act of charity turned into a political symbol reveals the ambiguity with which the contemporary Church adopts languages foreign to her tradition.

Slovenians have voted against a new assisted suicide law, defying the West’s growing appetite for granting the ‘right to die.’

On Sunday morning, Slovenians began voting in a referendum that will decide whether the law legalising medical aid in dying will enter into force.

A 40,000-signature petition has forced this weekend’s public vote, with churches and doctors urging citizens to reject the measure.

So few parents want their children in the ‘health education’ class that the government is now considering making it compulsory.