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Pope Francis at his weekly Wednesday audience in St. Peter's Square June 26, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.St. Louis, Mo., Mar 13, 2023 / 03:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis was elected to the papacy 10 years ago, on March 13, 2013. How has the worldwide Catholic Church changed since then?Statistically speaking, the Church has grown, keeping pace with and even exceeding overall world population growth. The total number of Catholics worldwide grew from ??1.253 billion in 2013 to 1.378 billion in 2021, a...

EWTN CEO Michael P. Warsaw delivers the keynote address at conclusion of "Journalism in a Post-Truth World," a conference held March 10-11, 2023, at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by EWTN News and Franciscan University of Steubenville. / Shannon Mullen/CNAWashington D.C., Mar 13, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).Catholic journalists are "called to do our part to be truth tellers," even in the face of rising intolerance toward religious belief, traditional mora...

The faithful in Nicaragua participate in a pilgrimage in support of the bishops, July 28, 2018. / Photo credit: Javier Ruiz / Facebook Archdiocese of ManaguaRome Newsroom, Mar 13, 2023 / 04:15 am (CNA).The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has ordered the closing of the Vatican embassy in Managua and the Nicaraguan embassy to the Holy See in Rome, according to Reuters.The government of Nicaragua said March 12 that it had proposed "a suspension of relations" with the Holy See, the...

Pope Francis meets with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Havana, Cuba. on Feb. 12, 2016. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, Mar 12, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).In his public diplomatic efforts in the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis has repeatedly said that he is ready to go to Kyiv, but only if that trip can be combined with a trip to Moscow. This is the latest demonstration of the popes strong preference in diplomatic matters: He does not want to take sides but rather engage in conversation with all the ...

Janada Marcus with Pope Francis at the general audience on March 8, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 8, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis met Wednesday with two young Nigerian girls who suffered horrendous violence at the hands of the Boko Haram terrorist group.Sixteen-year-old Maryamu Joseph, who escaped from the Boko Haram in July after being held against her will for nine years, greeted the pope with Janada Marcus, also a victim of Boko Haram kidnapping, at the end of his gene...

Null / OpenRangeStock/ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Mar 8, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).Oklahomans on Tuesday night overwhelmingly voted down a measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana, which the Catholic bishops of the state had urged voters to reject because of the physical and spiritual harms of drug use.State Question 820, which would have legalized the consumption of marijuana for adults 21 and over, was put before Oklahoma voters in a special election March 7. The final tally was 62...

More than 100,000 people attended the papal Mass in Juba, according to local authorities. / Elias Turk/EWTNWashington D.C., Mar 8, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).On March 3 the Vatican newspaper LOsservatore Romano reported the latest statistics about the global Catholic Church.The Vaticans reporting is based on data gathered at the end of 2021.Here are the most important takeaways for you to know about the state of the Catholic Church today.The total number of Catholics has increased.The total number of...

Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, S.J., with the official image of the 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome. / Screenshot from Diocesi di Roma YouTube channel.Vatican City, Mar 7, 2023 / 11:12 am (CNA).Father Marko Rupnik concelebrated Mass at a basilica in Rome on Sunday despite restrictions prohibiting "any public ministerial and sacramental activity."The Jesuit priest and artist who has been accused of sexually and psychologically abusing consecrated women stood at the altar of the Basilica ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of MatagalpaACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the Nicaraguan dictatorship to release Bishop Rolando Álvarez and other political prisoners.The Daniel Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua sentenced the bishop of Matagalpa to 26 years and four months in prison on Feb. 10 on several charges that included being a "tr...

A Traditional Latin Mass. / Andrew Gardner via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).Washington D.C., Mar 7, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Students, faculty, staff, and others who attend the Traditional Latin Mass at Franciscan University will need to venture off campus to worship in the more ancient form of the Mass following their bishops decision to ban the campus monthly celebration. Bishop Jeffrey Monforton of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, ordered an immediate end to the Latin Mass on Franciscan Universitys c...