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Vatican statistics reveal stunning collapse of Catholic Church in France

Vatican data show France’s Catholic Church lost 68% of its priests and 72% of its parishes since 1980, and baptisms, marriages and religious vocations also plunged.

Earlier today, the Holy See Press Office published pastoral statistics for the Catholic Church in France covering 1980 to 2024, compiled by the Vatican’s Central Office for Church Statistics. The figures, released just one week before antipope Leo XIV’s apostolic visit, document a collapse in the Church’s sacramental and institutional life.

Vatican document revives the heretical ideas of Teilhard de Chardin

'Caring for Our Common Home' endorses 'panentheism' as a new way to understand God’s relationship with the world, an idea previously rejected by the Church.

"By divinizing the cosmos and presenting humanity as self-redeeming through collective evolution, the new magisterium risks erasing the need for grace and redemption, reduces Christ to a moral exemplar, and transforms the Church into a socio-political institution rather than a salvific one."

Leo XIV summons world’s bishops to entrench heretical Amoris Laetitia

Pope Leo considers the highly controversial Amoris Laetitia a guiding text for the Church, elements of which many consider to be heretical

Bishop Strickland: Why do Church leaders keep supporting LGBT agenda?

Why do so many in the Church, even in the highest offices, refuse to name the sin of sodomy, instead dressing it up in words like 'hospitality'?

Vatican probe into Benedict’s resignation still live: Cionci faces second hearing

There are new developments in the active Vatican court case looking into allegations that the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was not valid.

There are new developments in the active Vatican court case looking into allegations that the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was not valid and thus calling into question the pontificates of Francis and Leo XIV.

Vatican official performs Pachamama ritual ahead of Pope Leo’s Peru visit

Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu was filmed placing coca leaves in a Pachamama-linked ritual offering during a ‘human rights’ meeting in Peru.

BREAKING: San Antonio archbishop laicizes priest over messages calling Francis and Leo ‘usurpers’

Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller announced that Fr. John Mary Foster was found guilty of schism and dismissed from the clerical state while forbidding Catholics to attend Mass at the Mission of Divine Mercy.

Revolutionaries want to seize control of the Church rather than destroy it

Marxists have sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church and hijack papal authority for years, including maneuvering leftist bishops to support Liberation Theology, which can be defined today as 'social justice.'

Pope Leo XIV is waging war against traditional Catholics

Pope Francis’s 2021 motu proprio ‘Traditionis Custodes’ marked the opening shot in a campaign against Catholic tradition that has only intensified under Pope Leo XIV.

Archbishop who considered Francis antipope says SSPX excommunications are invalid

Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga said the excommunications are evidence that the Vatican has departed from Christ and authentic faith.

Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga, a former bishop in Kazakhstan known for surviving communism and his previous outspoken criticism of Pope Francis and the direction of the Catholic hierarchy, sharply criticized the Vatican’s excommunication of the priests and laity of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) after its July 1 consecration of four new bishops without a papal mandate while praising the order.

Eight years after Vatican-China deal, persecution of faithful Catholics intensifies

The Vatican's secret deal with China has empowered the Chinese Communist Party's war on religious freedom that Rome needs to address.

“Nobody has any illusion about the Chinese Communists Party’s determination to eliminate all religion.” ~Bishop James E. Walsh, Maryknoll Missionary to China, 1948, imprisoned for 12 years by the CCP.

Homosexual Jesuit praises Pope Leo for continuing Francis’ LGBT support

'One of the first things Pope Leo did was he said, ‘No, I have no intention of going backwards when it comes to the LGBTQ community,' Fr. Bryan Massingale said.