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Why is New Zealand’s Auckland diocese growing?

Mass attendance has risen by 10% in a single year.

Lay leader laments ‘mysterious’ process in stalled Schö...

Vienna's Catholics are still waiting for a new archbishop six months after the c...

The system that works? In defense of the party machine

'Without denying or defending the corruption, there’s a lot to miss about the ol...

The Friday Pillar Post - July 25, 2025

Written by Ed Condon and published July 25, 2025.

Rome in 1855

In the early months of 1855, Sarah Peter, a 54-year-old widow of means from Cinc...

Irish diocese disinters body of bishop accused of abuse

The remains of Bishop Eamonn Casey have been removed from the cathedral crypt an...

What’s happening with couples’ blessings in Germany?

Dioceses are splitting over controversial guidance issued by the German bishops'...

French bishop issues ‘fraternal correction’ over ‘appal...

Archbishop Giraud called the appointment of a priest convicted of rape as chance...

Henning: ‘What if I bring the Eucharist to them?’

Boston’s Archbishop leads a pilgrimage-by-sea

Church and state clash over pregnant girls in Congolese...

The government has instructed schools to stop excluding pregnant girls.

Ep. 220: A false sense of mercy

How can we measure the success of the Eucharistic Revival?

Bonus: An impromptu business meeting

Ed makes a Pillar proposition.

Swiss court clears former Vatican auditor of corruption...

The former head of the Vatican’s financial intelligence agency was acquitted of ...

Martha and Mary, and a terebinth is an oak

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

‘A crisis of the heart’ - Religious vocations directors...

“We needed to think outside the box.”

Velcro bulls, and the news

Wednesday's Tuesday Pillar Post

Polish government lodges Vatican protest over bishops’ ...

Poland’s government has formally complained to the Vatican over two bishops’ com...

Vatican official jailed for child pornography returns t...

A priest jailed in Vatican City for possession and distribution of child pornogr...

Accused priest seeks laicization, as Lima cardinal push...

A Lima priest accused of sexual misconduct requested laicization last week, afte...