Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on May 11, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, May 12, 2022 / 05:35 am (CNA).
Pope Francis decried the low birth rate in Western countries on Thursday, describing it as an urgent socia… […]
Pope Francis attends the ‘General State of the Birth Rate’ event in Rome, May 14, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, May 14, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis urged Europeans on Friday to reflect on what they treasure, and whether they consi… […]
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Rome, Italy, May 13, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Leaders in Italy’s public and private sectors will meet Friday to discuss the country’s dismal birth rate in a high-profile event including Pope Francis and Pr… […]
Pope Francis baptizes a child in the Sistine Chapel on Jan. 12, 2020. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, May 3, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will open an event on Italy’s demographic winter as the country’s b… […]
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Washington D.C., Apr 30, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
New Census numbers show the U.S. had its slowest decade of population growth since the Great Depression – and experts say this confirms a pre-existing downward trend. On Mo… […]
“I like to say that I was not ordained to be irrelevant,” says Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island. “The Church, and bishops […]
I thought that Downsizing would be a propaganda piece for left-wing causes, but I was surprised that the film amounts, I will argue, to a […]
Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures on the 50th anniversary of Paul VI’s landmark encyclical, but some of the speakers aren’t […]
Back in 1991, while visiting a Roman museum, I got into a conversation with an employee, who expressed dismay that Pope John Paul II had called for support for the massive migration into Italy of […]
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