Europe

Catholic schools in France educate over 2 million students in over 7,200 schools, about 17% of the nation’s total student population.

“Death does not sever closeness. Death does not sever bonds,” the cardinal said, adding that such bonds will ultimately be restored in Christ.

The papal almoner “looked at that crowd and was shocked that there were so many hungry people,” said Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia.

The leadership of the Polish bishops’ conference warned the escalating dispute over the Constitutional Tribunal “is leading to a profound crisis of the state.”

Many say the late pope’s priesthood offers a lesson that remains relevant: how to combine a deep spiritual life with genuine attention to other people. 

The monastery has survived foreign invasions, the partitions of Poland, two world wars and communism , while the nuns’ rhythm of prayer and work has continued.

“St. Gregory doesn’t belong only to Armenians. He belongs to every Catholic and, in a real sense, to every Christian.”

As the northern winter approaches, Scandinavia’s Catholic Church is witnessing unprecedented growth, with more people turning to the faith in reaction to the region’s highly secularized culture.

In 1989, when the World Wide Web was created, St. John Paul II was already thinking about how computer technology might change human life.

There was a “clear recognition” of the need to prepare people for discipleship in a local Church “chastened and challenged” by secularism and the abuse crisis.