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On March 11, 2026, Pope Leo XIV received Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, Archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan, Iran, who arrived in Rome after leaving Iran the previous week. After staying in the Iranian capital for nearly a week despite Israeli and American strikes, the Belgian Conventual Franciscan was evacuated alongside Italian embassy staff. In the Vatican, a source Read More…

Cardinal evacuated from Tehran gives Pope Leo 1st-hand report

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The government of Nicaragua has imposed a new restriction on the Catholic Church, prohibiting priestly and diaconal ordinations in four dioceses whose bishops have been forced into exile. The measure affects the Dioceses of Jinotega, Siuna, Matagalpa, and Estelí and marks another escalation in the ongoing confrontation between the regime and the Church. As read Read More…

Nicaragua prohibits priestly and diaconal ordinations

On March 10, 2026, Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphaël Sako. According to a message posted on the Chaldean Patriarchate’s website, he stepped down due to his age. Given that this criterion is not mandatory in the tradition of the Eastern Churches, the Iraqi cardinal’s resignation, in the midst of Read More…

Iraq: Cardinal Sako retires as Patriarch of the Chaldean Church

Pakistan’s Catholic bishops have called for a transparent investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Christian laborer whose family says shows signs of torture. [...]

European governments are moving to restrict children’s access to social media — but Catholic thinkers say the more important question is what kind of human beings those children are becoming. [...]

In the context of the government's effort to enshrine abortion in the consititution, Spain's bishops present the moral and scientific grounds for why abortion can never be a right. [...]

“Their fear was that if they did leave, that they would never be able to get their land back again,” Jesuit Father Daniel Corrou told “EWTN News Nightly.” [...]

“I am close to all the Lebanese people at this time of grave trial,” the pope said on March 11. [...]