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There has been a rise in conversions to Catholicism in England in recent years and the Archdiocese of Southwark is ready to meet them with their brand new Ambassadors for Christ initiative. A survey from the Bible Society reports that 31% of churchgoers in 2024 identify as Catholics. This percentage is up from 23% in Read More…

English archdiocese responds to a surge of conversions

“I still consider myself very new, a sort of ‘beginner,’” Sister Simona Brambilla admits one year after her appointment as the first female prefect of the Roman Curia, in an interview with I.MEDIA. The Italian nun at the head of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life outlines the main Read More…

Interview with Sr. Brambilla, a woman pioneer in the Vatican

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to witness the Passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus? Would you have gone along with the crowds — or stood apart from them? Would you have acted like Joseph of Arimathea, risking your life to ask for the body of Jesus? Or like John, the Read More…

Where would you have stood on Good Friday?

As a teenager, Abigail Marsh was driving along a freeway when a dog darted across her path. She swerved to avoid it, sending her car spinning into oncoming traffic. The engine stalled. The car came to rest in the fast lane. In that suspended moment, she was certain she was about to die. Then a Read More…

Science shows why some people risk their lives for others

“Peace begins with dignity,” Bishop Socrates Mesiona of the Diocese of Puerta Princesa, Philippines, said in a statement released on February 1. Bishop Mesiona, chair of the Philippine Catholic bishops’ Commission on Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, warned that human trafficking continues to pose a threat to vulnerable people, including migrants, women, and Read More…

Philippines bishops call for stronger efforts to stop human trafficking

Weeks after Pope Leo XIV spotlighted the Church’s position on surrogacy as a violation of human dignity, lawmakers in Chile have taken a major step toward banning the practice nationwide. On January 9, 2026, the Pope reminded the Diplomatic Corps that surrogacy turns pregnancy into a negotiable service and undermines the dignity of women and Read More…

Chile moves to ban surrogacy, joining growing number of nations

What one thinks about the SSPX, in a sense, is in the eye of the beholder.

Catholics have lost the "public square" over the past 60 years, but Bishop Antonio Suetta in Italy is sounding a wake-up call.

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