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January 05, 2024

Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf contemplates diaconate after conversion to Catholic faith

January 05, 2024

Hollywood movie star Shia LaBeouf is contemplating whether to become a deacon after his recent reception into the Catholic Church. The Transformers and Fury actor underwent a religious awakening when he played the lead role of St Pio of Pietrelcina – the 20th century Italian mystic and stigmatist – for the 2022 biopic Padre Pio.

US politicians demand action to stop Ortega’s persecution of Catholic Church

January 05, 2024

NEW YORK – Members of the US government’s global religious freedom watchdog have added their voices to a growing chorus of calls for the release of imprisoned Catholic leaders in Nicaragua, arguing that it is time for legislative action against the Caribbean nation. Frank Wolf, Commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,

Sudanese bishops plead for peace as fighting claims 12,000 lives in under a year

January 05, 2024

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – As a deadly conflict continues to rage in Sudan, Catholic bishops both inside the country and in neighbouring South Sudan have used their Christmas message this year to praise the clergy and men and women religious for continuing to serve despite the risks. “To you, our dear clergy and religious men and

Italian priest excommunicated for calling Francis ‘anti-pope’, ‘usurper’ and ‘mason’

January 05, 2024

ROME – A priest from the Italian diocese of Livorno has received a decree of excommunication less than 12 hours after delivering a homily describing the pontiff as “an anti-pope usurper” and a mason. Fr Ramon Guidetti, 48, parish priest of the Church of San Ranieri in Guasticce in Livorno since 2017, noted in his