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Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has moved into a special underground shelter in Tehran after senior military and security officials assessed an increased risk of a potential US attack, two sources close to the government told Iran International. The facility was described as a fortified site with...

We are sad to report that Crux's Editor-in-Chief, John L. Allen Jr., died this afternoon, just before 2pm in Rome, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 61 years old, and is survived by his widow, Elise Ann Allen, whom you all know as Crux's Senior Vatican Correspondent. "Allen was a force...

Speaking to the BBC on Jan. 18. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services said he “cannot see any circumstances” in which an American military operation to take control of Greenland or another ally’s territory could fulfill the criteria for a just war. The archbishop al...

Republican senator Josh Hawley, who sits on the Senate judiciary committee and is an advocate for harsher restrictions on social media, said that American parents would welcome an Australia-style ban. “I like it. I’ve supported age limits here in the US for kids on social media,” he said. “I say thi...

Pope Leo has urged President Donald Trump not to launch a war to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force. The Pope said Tuesday: "It is better to search for ways of dialogue, or perhaps pressure, including economic pressure." He added, during a news conference in Tu...

The Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has called on all states to view Patriarch Kirill and his church’s leadership as extensions of Vladimir Putin’s regime and to treat them as complicit in its war crimes and crimes against humanity. The church is: “An ideological extension of Vladimir Put...

In his closing remarks at Saturday morning’s ecumenical meeting in the Church of Mor Ephrem – the Syriac Orthodox church in Istanbul that was the first new church building erected since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 – Pope Leo XIV invited everyone present at the ecumenical gathering...

Quebec says it will intensify its crackdown on public displays of religion in a sweeping new law that critics say pushes Canadian provinces into private spaces and disproportionately affects Muslims. Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday, bans prayer in public insti...

Bishop Cherry Vann enthroned as Anglican archbishop of Wales, becomes the first lesbian to serve as archbishop globally. Vann has been in a relationship with a female partner for 30 years. "For years, we kept our relationship secret because I worried about waking up and finding myself outed on ...

Jesus did not appear to a woman in Dozulé, France, in the 1970s, and the messages she claimed to receive, including about Jesus’ second coming, are misleading and twist central Christian teachings, said the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. “The phenomenon of the alleged appari...

In Mater Populi Fidelis the dicastery said when an expression requires frequent explanation to maintain the correct meaning, it becomes unhelpful. “In this case, the expression ‘Co-redemptrix’ does not help extol Mary as the first and foremost collaborator in the work of Redemption and grace, for it...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Tuesday, 4 November 2025, published Mater populi fidelis (“The Mother of the Faithful People”), a Doctrinal Note “On Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation.” Signed by the Prefect, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and ...

Not as important but this week the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will present a new doctrinal note “referring to Mary’s cooperation in the work of salvation.” The document is titled Mater Populi Fidelis (“Mother of the Faithful People”), with the Italian subtitle Nota dottrinale ...

A former Anglican bishop has urged Church leaders to prepare for a surge of Catholic conversions, as a historic Vatican visit by King Charles III coincided with a deepening division in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Source: UCA News. “The Church of England has clearly decided to go the way of lib...

Did the Church of England get any money from GAFCON churches? That now with this split they will no longer receive? And if not, will there be any negative impact to the Church of England’s bottom line? No, each province in the World Anglican Communion is independent, similar to Orthodoxy, but befor...

The King will become the first British monarch to pray publicly with the Pope since the Reformation 500 years ago during a state visit to the Holy See next week. The King and Queen will meet the new pontiff Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace, his official residence, next Thursday during their trip...

Today, Gafcon is leading the Global Anglican Communion. As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion. At our upcoming G26 Bishops Conference in Abuja, Nigeria from 3 to 6 March 2026, we will confer and celebrate the Global Angli...

The Kenyan Catholic Church has introduced a new brand of altar wine for Holy Mass after the previous one became widely available in local bars. Simply labelled Mass Wine, the new sacramental drink bears the coat of arms of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) and an official signature to ...

Meanwhile in England and Wales there has been a 75% drop in attendance at Mass.