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Canadian Catholics retain identity more than U.S. Catholics, but decline in practice is similar

One researcher says when it comes to Catholic identity, retention rates for Catholics are higher in Canada, but mostly as a cultural expression.

Number of Catholics in Ibero-America fell by 25% over the last 30 years, study indicates

The percentage of Ibero-Americans who identify as Catholic has dropped from 80% in 1995 to 55% today.

Singapore’s youngest Catholic priest finds his calling — and wins admirers

Father Marcus Dominic Chew says he was “Catholic in name” only as a teen; now his faith story has reached a wide audience through a viral video.

‘An immense emotion’: Andean missionary nun meets her former bishop, now Pope Leo XIV

A sister serving a remote Quechua-speaking parish in the Diocese of Chiclayo recalls the bishop who came to the Andes and what he told her after her t...

PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV revisits his former cathedral, celebrates Mass in rural Peru

The Holy Father spent time at the seat of his former diocese, celebrated Mass, and met with local Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV deplores the ‘great suffering and humiliation’ of Afro-Peruvians

At the shrine where St. Turibius died, the pope offered his “affection and closeness” to Peruvians of African descent and lamented crime and extortion...