The war ravaging the Holy Land has forced the Church in Jerusalem to suspend the traditional Holy Week celebrations open to the faithful, in an unprecedented recent decision that directly affects the ...

An internal CIA report prepared in 2021 during the Joe Biden administration has generated strong controversy after coming to light, associating traditional motherhood and the domestic role of women ...

The Government of Spain has initiated the procedure to revoke the National Tourist Interest declaration of the Holy Week of Sagunto (Valencia) following the decision of one of its main brotherhoods to ...

The Bishop of Oslo (Norway), Fredrik Hansen, has published a pastoral letter in which he calls on the faithful to rediscover the value of the sacrament of penance and to recover its habitual practice, ...

St. Peter’s Basilica hosted on this March 22 the traditional ostension of the Veil of Veronica, one of the most emblematic relics linked to the Passion of Christ, in a ceremony that is celebrated only ...

The House of Lords’ decision to retain clause 208 in the Crime and Police Bill, which decriminalizes abortion up to birth in certain circumstances, has prompted an immediate reaction from the English ...

The Archdiocese of Detroit will implement a mandatory fingerprint registration system for priests, employees, and volunteers, as part of a set of measures aimed at strengthening protection protocols ...

The trial over the London property scandal has opened a new crack in the Vatican judicial system: a direct confrontation between the Promoter of Justice and the Court of Appeal that threatens to ...

The recent episcopal movements in England published in the Holy See Bulletin, and analyzed by The Pillar, point to a possible unification process between the English dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough, ...

The construction of the monumental statue of Christ in Lebanon has reached a decisive moment with the placement of the image’s head on March 14, in a context marked by instability and bombings ...

The Peruvian journalist Pedro Salinas has assured that the meeting between Pope Leo XIV and the writer Gareth Gore was a direct initiative of the Pontiff and that his intervention occurred at the ...

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes has established a new accreditation system for priests and deacons who wish to celebrate in the precinct, with the aim of strengthening the verification of their ...