The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith calls the family "the first and most essential place for the transmission of the faith." It also admits that in the West ever fewer parents hand it on.

Migrants are burning down France and Italy, and targeting heritage sites in what can only be described as a riot against Western Civilization & Christendom.

Labor pledged free abortion to 16 weeks. The Liberals matched it within hours. A day later One Nation offered to pay mothers' pregnancy costs. None of the three parties leading the polls will change the law.

A Michigan diocese bans Sunday Masses facing the altar and forbids pastors to limit altar service to boys. Rome's own texts allow the first and praise the second tradition.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio told Catholic soldiers to ask off Nidal Hasan's firing squad "as I would in the case of a procured abortion." The Church's own texts say the innocent may never be slain and the guilty may be justly punished.

A Vatican News essay says St. Augustine saw "just war" as ambiguous or even inadmissible. The same pages it cites, and the letters around them, tell a different story: the wise man wages just wars and grieves while he does it.

Canada's justice minister says MAID will stay closed "on an indeterminate basis" to people whose only condition is mental illness. Hours later the government helped defeat a Conservative bill to make that protection law, 187-141.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis says priests at an ICE contract jail in Ste. Genevieve County may speak to Catholic detainees only by phone through glass, once a week, while lawyers get private rooms.

Justice Samuel Alito told CBS News that when he wrote Dobbs he saw no "realistic prospect" the Supreme Court would overturn its same-sex marriage ruling, and he pointed to how much the country has come to rely on it.

Nearly six weeks after France enacted its assisted-dying law, the Pope told the sick at Accueil Notre-Dame that dignity cannot be measured, medicine must never serve programmed death, and killing under the mask of mercy is not care.

A think tank co-founded by Facebook's founding president has spent years pushing a county-by-county visa scheme to populate rural America with third-world foreigners, and its lobbying filings still list it in 2026.

The Dicastery for Divine Worship did not rule on the merits. The disciplinary law behind the refusal is not a definition of faith.