Vatican Publicly Warns: Lefebvrist Ordination of Bishops without Papal Mandate Implies Schism and Excommunication

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Holy Land•Persecuted Christians•Priests

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Local Church

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Declared a historical monument along with the rest of the Cathedral, the stained glass windows by Viollet-le-Duc were saved from the devastating fire of April 15, 2019.

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Vatican City

The Vatican Bank releases its 2026 results: a 55.5% increase in profits compared to 2024

The robustness of the Tier 1 ratio, as well as the liquidity ratios, rank the Institute among the most solid financial institutions in the world in terms of capitalization and liquidity

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Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

128,750 Christians in Nigeria killed over 17 years: the $10 million cover-up of the genocide in Nigeria

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May 11, 2026 17:24

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Controversies•Dicasteries•Gender Ideology

Courage, a Catholic-Orthodox ministry that supports gay people, has filed a complaint against the Vatican Synod for slander and defamation

Courage International, a ministry founded more than four decades ago to accompany men and women seeking to live according to the Catholic Church’s teaching on chastity, issued an unusually forceful statement on May 8 accusing the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod of publishing what it called a “false and unjust” portrayal of its work

May 11, 2026 17:10

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Address by the Pope on the occasion of the presentation of the credentials of the new ambassadors of Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Yemen, Rwanda, Namibia, Mauritius, Chad, and Sri Lanka

Vatican Publicly Warns: Lefebvrist Ordination of Bishops without Papal Mandate Implies Schism and Excommunication

Prison sentence for two Israeli soldiers who desecrated an image of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon

What does it mean that Mary is a model of the Church? Leo XIV’s response

The Bible and Young People: 7 Striking Findings from New Global Research

Vienna’s Silent Transformation: Nearly 50% of students in schools are already Muslim. Only 17% are Catholic

Over 100 dead, 98,000 displaced, 217 churches destroyed in the diocese of Wukari

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Israel expels (from Palestine!) a young Catholic priest: the most influential figure in Palestine’s Christian community

What Will Happen to the Historic Stained Glass Windows of Notre Dame de Paris?

The Vatican Bank releases its 2026 results: a 55.5% increase in profits compared to 2024

128,750 Christians in Nigeria killed over 17 years: the $10 million cover-up of the genocide in Nigeria

Courage, a Catholic-Orthodox ministry that supports gay people, has filed a complaint against the Vatican Synod for slander and defamation