The share of adults identifying as Catholic has declined sharply across much of Latin America over the past decade. The number of people with no religious affiliation has risen, according to a January 21 Pew Research Center report. This marks a shift in a region where more than 90% of people were Catholic around 1900. The report, Catholicism Has Declined in Latin America Over the Past Decade is based on surveys of more than 6,200 adults in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru conducted in spring 2024. Comparing the results with a similar 2013–14 survey, Pew found that the Catholic share fell by at least 9 percentage points in all six countries. Today, Catholics make up 46% of adults in Brazil and Chile, 58% in Argentina, 60% in Colombia, and 67% in both Mexico and Peru. A decade ago, all six countries had Catholic majorities of roughly six-in-ten or more adults. The Rise of the “Believing Nones” The share of religiously unaffiliated adults - those identifying as atheist …More
This report from the Pew Research Center is yet another reason for us, as Catholics, to "go all out." Is there still anyone who doubts that Vatican II was a failure? and that the time is near? and that it's better to be prepared...
St. John 4: 23-24: “But the hour will come-in fact it is here already when true worshipers, will worship the Father in spirit and truth: that is the kind of worshiper the Father wants. God is Spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth." 2) St Mathew 6,6: “But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you”. 3) Isaiah 26, 20: “Go into your rooms, my people, shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed” 4) Jeremiah 33:3: “Call to me and I will answer you; I will tell you great mysteries of which you know nothing”. 5) Romans 8, 26: “The Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words”. 6) Galatians 5, 22-23: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience …More
At an altitude of 2,580 metres (8,500 feet) and located inside a towering sandstone spire the Abuna Yemata Guh church has to be the hardest and most dangerous church to reach. The church is in the Gheralta Mountains of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. A huge vertical sandstone structure shoots straight up 2,580 metres and like a miracle inside that rock one finds a Christian church. No doubt the hardest to access on the planet. The church takes its name from one of the nine saints who came to Ethiopia from Rome, Constantinople and Syria during the 5th and 6th centuries. The saints came to the region as missionaries to bring Christianity. They were also responsible for building monasteries and translated the Bible into Ge'ez, the old language of Ethiopia. Abuna Yemata Guh is one of the oldest churches in Ethiopia, and its founder worked to help carve the church into what is the highest sandstone spire in the area. The Church has beautiful mural paintings on its walls, domes and columns that …
Requiescat in pace Vaticanist John L. Allen, 61, has passed away after a battle with cancer. He had gifted writing skills and was considered closely attuned to the Francis-era Vatican. In 2014, he founded CruxNow.com. Before that, he had spent many years working for the anti-Catholic NcrOnline and CNN. He was married, later annulled, and remarried, and is survived by his wife Elise Ann Allen. Friends and colleagues mourn his passing.
Morning Prayer Lord, at the beginning of this day, I come to ask You for health, strength, peace, and wisdom. I want to look at the world today with eyes full of love, to be patient, understanding, gentle and prudent; to see, beyond appearances, Your children as You Yourself see them, and thus see only the good in each one. Close my ears to all slander. Guard my tongue from all evil. May my spirit be filled only with blessings. May I be so kind and joyful, that all who approach me may feel Your presence. Lord, clothe me in Your beauty, and may I, throughout this day, reveal You to everyone. Amen.
Open letter to Pope Leo XIV: The heresy of Modernism lives on through Vatican II: Legal scholar Raymond Marcin has urged the Pope to reject Vatican II’s path, calling it a covert revival of what St. Pius X condemned as the ‘synthesis of all heresies.’
Wed Jan 14, 2026 - 7:31 am EST Editor’s note: Below follows the full text of an Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV by Emeritus Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America Raymond B. Marcin. (LifeSiteNews) — Your Holiness, The purpose of this letter is to express a concern regarding the path that our Catholic Church has been following for six decades now in the wake of its Second Vatican Council. In your address to the College of Cardinals on Saturday, May 10, 2025, just two days after your election as Pope, you described that path with clarity and invited the entire College of Cardinals to commit themselves completely to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council in these words: In this regard, I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Pope Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, from which I …
Leo XIV today appointed Monsignor Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli, 69, until now Archbishop of Gorizia, Italy, as Secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy. Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli (born 1956 in Milan) is a canon lawyer who served for many years in the Archdiocese of Milan before becoming Archbishop of Gorizia in 2012. He holds a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he specialized in the nature of Church law in the post–Vatican II period. Promoting Homosexuality In June 2017, in Staranzano, a small town in the Diocese of Gorizia, a leader of the Catholic Scout movement (AGESCI) entered into a homosexual civil union. The parish priest, Don Francesco Fragiacomo, stated that, as a consequence of this choice, he could no longer retain his role as a Catholic educator. Archbishop Redaelli intervened publicly and stabbed the priest in the back. The anti-Catholic slogans of Monsignor Redaelli were: One must seek the “grace present in every situation” and …More
ope Leo XIV’s new Secretary for the Dicastery for Clergy is Archbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli—known for refusing to condemn a homosexual “marriage” of a Catholic scout leader and instead promoting “welcome, discernment and integration,” per Pope Francis’ teaching