According to 2024 Church statistics, the global Catholic population continues to grow touching 1.389 billion, with an increase of 13.7 million compared to the previous year. The increase is significant, especially in Africa and Asia, where baptisms have risen.
Vincent van Gogh once wrote, “One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”
If you are asking how long I'll need you, the answer is forever.
If you are asking when I'll leave you, the answer is never.
If you are asking what I value, the answer is you.
If you are asking whether I want to marry you, the answer is “I do.”
St. Benedict, in his Rule, urged abbots to correct with both firmness and compassion, so that “the strong may have something to strive after and the weak may not be discouraged.”
Every whispered “Hail Mary” becomes an act of rebellion. Every clandestine gathering for Mass becomes a declaration that Christ’s kingdom cannot be silenced.
An Indian Catholic priest recently made news after being named to the International Committee tasked with preparing the global celebrations for the 100th birth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI in 2027.
The blue light flickers across her small face as she swipes through another video. You call her name twice before she looks up, eyes still glazed from the digital world she’s been swimming in.
As Papua New Guinea (PNG) marks 50 years of independence, a growing body of legal and cultural voices is questioning the legitimacy of its 1975 separation from Australia.
Azim Premji, who is described as an entrepreneur, industrialist, philanthropist, the most famous Muslim, and a visionary leader, established the Azim Premji Foundation to create social change.
Pope Francis, who served as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church from 2013 until his passing in 2025, will be remembered not only as a spiritual leader but as a prophet of the peripheries.
After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a Conclave with 132 other brother cardinals from all over the world, I understood why the election of a pope should take place nowhere else but in the Sistine Chapel.
In a monumental moment for Papua New Guinea (PNG), history will be made as Cardinal Sir John Ribal MSC prepares to take part in the next Papal Conclave starting 7 May 2025—the solemn and secretive process by which the Catholic Church elects a new Pope.
One of the most admired world leaders of our time, dubbed “the parish priest of the world”, Pope Francis redefined the concept of the Church as a “field hospital,” giving love a tangible presence
At 9:45 on Easter Monday morning, as Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced that Pope Francis had "returned to the house of the Father," a profound chapter in our global story came to a close.
