New data from the Annuario Pontificio 2026 and Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2024 highlight trends in baptized populations across the five continents, with a remarkable increase in the number of Catholics in Africa.
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During his Mass in the Principality of Monaco, Pope Leo XIV says “we are not to grow accustomed to the clamor of weapons and images of war,” reminding that “every life cut short wounds the body of Christ,” and insists that the Church in Monaco is called “to bear witness to living in peace” and to bring happiness to others through its faith.
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Pope Leo speaks to young residents of Monaco, answering questions on faith and doubt, and urging his listeners to “pour yourselves out completely for the Lord and for others.โ
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Pope Leo XIV invites the Catholic community of Monaco to renew a faith capable of addressing secularism, promoting dignity, and proclaiming the Gospel with creativity and conviction.
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Pope Leo XIV greets residents of the Principality of Monaco as he begins his Apostolic Journey, and encourages the small European nation to place its material prosperity at the service of humanity, law, and justice.
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As the Church celebrates Palm Sunday, Jenny Kraska offers her thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings, reflecting on the theme, “Palm branches & plot twistsโ.
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The Pope is travelling by helicopter to the small city-state, the destination of his second Apostolic Journey. In a telegram to the President of Italy during the flight, he expresses his desire to encourage โthe witness of Christian faithโ and โthe building of the common good.โ
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Following their plenary assembly earlier this month, bishops from the Anglican Ordinariate list seven distinctive traits of their spiritual and pastoral heritage, including lay participation, commitment to the poor, and the family as domestic church.
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The Principality of Monaco is preparing to welcome Pope Leo XIV. โSmall nations,โ notes the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, โprove to be natural guardians of multilateralism.โ
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In this weekโs news from the Eastern Churches, produced in collaboration with Lโลuvre dโOrient we look ahead to Easter in the Holy Land, where celebrations are being compromised by the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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