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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government officials held bilateral meetings with Pope Francis and Cardinal Pietro Parolin on July 27, 2022, during the pope's trip to that country. (Pool VAMP via CNA)

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Canada census shows 2 million fewer Catholics as disaffiliation grows

Kevin Jones|Oct 27, 2022|4 Min Read

Young people pray as Pope Francis celebrates Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 30, 2017. The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences must restructure itself to make the church "relevant and responsive" to the people of Asia, a top-ranking cardinal said. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Cardinal says Asian church must remain prophetic, relevant, responsive

Catholic News Service|Oct 13, 2022|3 Min Read

Volunteer parishioners join clergy and religious sisters of the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará order at St. Michael Parish in Wauchula, Fla., Oct. 2, 2022, to serve a hot meal of lasagna, chicken and cooked pasta. Since Hurricane Ian hit Sept. 28, volunteers have cooked meals -- without electricity -- so that members of Wauchula and outlying Hardee County communities have a hot meal. (CNS photo/David Gonzalez, Florida Catholic)

Church, community help one another in inland Florida county hit hard by Ian

Jean Gonzalez|Oct 4, 2022|6 Min Read

Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, holds a sign at the party's election night headquarters in Rome Sept. 26, 2022. Italian voters handed a victory to a coalition of center-right parties and set the stage for Meloni to become the next prime minister. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

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What does Giorgia Meloni’s victory mean for Catholics in Italy?

Andrea Gagliarducci|Sep 29, 2022|6 Min Read

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks to supporters in Managua March 21, 2019. Ortega called his nation's Catholic bishops a "gang of murderers" in a Sept. 28, 2022, speech that also insulted a U.S. diplomat. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

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Nicaragua president calls church a dictatorship, bishops 'murderers'

David Agren|Sep 29, 2022|3 Min Read

A man walks past a Marian mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb. 20, 2013. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were brought up Catholic, compared with 43.5% identifying as Protestants, the first time in more than a century that Catholics outnumber Protestants. (CNS photo/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters)

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Northern Ireland census shows more Catholics than Protestants

Michael Kelly|Sep 23, 2022|3 Min Read

A program for a Mass opening the synod process in the Diocese of Camden, N.J., is seen at St. Agnes Church of Our Lady of Hope Parish in Blackwood, N.J., Oct. 17, 2021. Over several months reflections were collected from the faithful in parishes across the diocese and put before diocesan teams and deaneries as part of the churchwide preparation process for the 2023 word Synod of Bishops on synodality. (CNS photo/Dave Hernandez, Catholic Star Herald)

U.S. synod report finds participants share common hopes, lingering pain

Dennis Sadowski|Sep 19, 2022|8 Min Read

Pope Francis leads a meeting with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers at the cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Kazakh church's strength is its diversity, not its numbers, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 15, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm, Sweden, during a meeting with members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity at the Vatican May 6, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Wisdom of centuries: Swedish cardinal says much to learn from church's past

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 1, 2022|5 Min Read

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The dangers of the rosary

Robert Brennan|Aug 23, 2022|4 Min Read

Worshippers attend a mass at Xishiku Cathedral, also known as Beitang, on Christmas Eve in Beijing in this Dec. 24, 2019, file photo. Two state-sponsored church bodies in China have elected new leaders, who promised to invigorate the Catholic faithful pastorally in line with the socialist principles of the Chinese Communist Party. (CNS photo/Florence Lo, Reuters)

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New Chinese Catholic leaders say they'll follow Communist Party principles

Catholic News Service|Aug 23, 2022|3 Min Read

A Nicaraguan exiled in Costa Rica holds up a drawing of Pope Francis with a Nicaraguan flag covering his mouth during the "Vigil of Faith and Freedom" outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 19, 2022. (CNS photo/Mayela Lopez, Reuters)

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The dilemma behind the Vatican’s silence on Nicaragua

Inés San Martín|Aug 22, 2022|5 Min Read

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