Europe

Over 20,000 catechumens in France are expected to be baptized during the Easter Vigil, marking a 20% increase compared to baptisms in 2025.

Pope Leo XIV lamented the divisions surrounding the celebration of the Latin Mass and called on the French bishops' conference to find solutions that include those attached to the old form of Mass.

A Belgian Catholic bishop said he “will make every effort to ordain married men as priests” and expressed his commitment to doing so by 2028.

In 2023, following a major television documentary claiming that St. John Paul II had covered up clerical sexual abuse when he was leading the Archdiocese of Kraków, Polish experts rejected the claim and urged that archdiocesan records be opened to allow the full context.

Religious leaders and pro-life advocates are raising alarms about changes to abortion laws in Britain after the House of Lords advanced legislation that would remove penalties for women who terminate their pregnancies.

Scottish Catholic bishops welcomed Parliament's decision to reject the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill March 17.

Legislation to legalize assisted suicide in the United Kingdom appears headed for collapse, but local measures are advancing -- drawing sharp criticism from Catholic leaders.

Four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has fundamentally reshaped the Catholic Church’s mission, turning parishes into shelters, priests into chaplains and charity into daily survival.

You are not alone on the landing beaches of Normandy. There, the weight of history presses upon you, joined by the haunting presence of the brave Allied soldiers.

Nearly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, intensified Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure are deepening the country's humanitarian crisis.