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Catholics decry Swedish political party’s plan to close all religious schools

Mar 21, 2018

Catholic educators in Sweden have denounced a political party’s promise to ban all religious schools as a political maneuver capitalizing on people’s fears in order to obtain votes.

By Mary Rezac

Chaput: Coercion in American culture is ‘soft’ but real

Feb 28, 2018

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput spoke to Crux about his new book ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World.’

By Charles C. Camosy

Catholic schools in Ireland might lose right to choose their students

Jan 19, 2018

A proposal to end the ability of Catholic schools in Ireland to give preference to Catholic children is causing fears over the increasing secularization of society in the majority-Catholic country.

By Charles Collins

Dutch cardinal: Don’t underestimate power of Catholics as a ‘creative minority’

Oct 3, 2017

Between 2003 and 2013, the Catholic population of the Netherlands declined by 589,500. Catholics now represent just 22.9 percent of the country according to 2015 data. Cardinal Wilhelm Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht, says the solution to growing secularism is for faithful Catholics to build a culture of life by becoming a “creative minority.”

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Go out now, share the Gospel, get messy, pope tells Quebec bishops

May 12, 2017

“You’ve got to go, and it’s going to be messy,” this is the message Pope Francis gave to Canadian bishops visiting the Vatican for the “ad limina” visits. The bishops discussed several issues with the pope, from secularization to the role of women in the Church.

By Cindy Wooden

Church can’t be understood without laity, new cardinal says

Nov 22, 2016

Cardinal Juan Carlos Osoro of Madrid, Spain, calls for a defense of religious freedom, “the greatest expression of freedom.” On the pope’s condemnation of “gender ideology,” he says Catholics are called to “strongly support” what Francis wrote in his document on the family Amoris Laetitia.

By Inés San Martín