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Pew survey: Catholicism shrinking in Latin America

Image TimesDaily 22 Jan 2026
Catholicism in Latin American countries has shrunk over the last decade, while a growing percentage of adults identify as religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” ... .
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Pope evaluating Trump’s invitation to join Board of Peace, Vatican’s secretary of state says

Catholic Standard 22 Jan 2026
Pope Leo XIV is currently evaluating an invitation by U.S. President Donald Trump to join his “Board of Peace,” an international body chaired by the president to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state said.
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Making a Difference: Imagining a better world this New Year

Catholic Standard 22 Jan 2026
The world is a wonderful place. Our God is so good in giving it to us. But to a large extent, we have not taken good care of it, nor of each other. We have polluted the water, fouled the air and are dangerously changing the climate ... ....
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Top 10 films of 2025

Catholic Standard 22 Jan 2026
The year just past was, on the whole, a reasonably strong one for Hollywood ... Productions in that category included “Wake Up Dead Man,” “Bugonia” and “Rental Family.” ... Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13 ... In “Downton Abbey ... (R) ... Army.
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Catholic Heisman-winner Mendoza thanks God after IU football’s first national championship

Catholic Standard 22 Jan 2026
On Jan. 19, quarterback Fernando Mendoza soaked in the glory of leading Indiana University to its first national championship, but he directed the attention elsewhere. “This moment is bigger than me,” he said afterward. “First, I want to thank God.”.
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The gift of ordinary time

Catholic Standard 22 Jan 2026
Want to decrease anxiety, grow in peace, and become more connected to God and others this year? The Church has an important opportunity for you. It’s called Ordinary Time ... It is part of allowing our souls to rest in God’s love ... We’re made for this ... ....
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Catholicism sees steep decline in Latin America, with more people identifying as religiously unaffiliated

AOL 21 Jan 2026
Catholicism is experiencing a significant decline across Latin America, ... While most Latin Americans remain Christian and Catholicism is still the dominant religion, the exodus from the church continues.
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Father Milton Jordan, a priest for more than 50 years, dies at age 84

Catholic Standard 21 Jan 2026
Father Milton Edward Jordan, a priest for more than 50 years, died Jan. 16 at Grace House in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was 84 years old ... He was ordained a priest for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on June 3, 1972, in Baltimore ... Cardinal Robert W ... ....
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To know God, we must welcome Jesus’s humanity, pope says

Catholic Standard 21 Jan 2026
Pope Leo XIV said that God is revealed through Jesus’s humanity, not solely through a “channel of transmission of intellectual truths.” It is through Jesus’s life, death and resurrection that one can come to know God ... ....
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Mass readings for Jan. 25

Catholic Standard 21 Jan 2026
Mass readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.. Isaiah 8.23-9.3. Psalm 27.1, 4, 13-14. 1 Corinthians 1.10-13, 17. Matthew 4.12-23 or Matthew 4.12-17 ... For I believe there is indeed a message. In Advent, we sought Christ ... Father Joshua J ... ....
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Pope Leo receives lambs in ancient St. Agnes tradition

Catholic Standard 21 Jan 2026
Adding some sweetness to the usual general audience-focused Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV was presented with two lambs Jan. 21 as part of an ancient Roman Catholic tradition marking the feast of St. Agnes of Rome ... Agnes is buried ... 21 ... ....
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Capuchin friar who was one of last people with direct ties to Padre Pio dies ...

Catholic Standard 20 Jan 2026
Capuchin Franciscan Father John Aurilia – the former assistant to Saint Padre Pio whose final interview last October on the Wilmington’s Diocese’s Catholic Forum broke records as it was viewed nearly 300,000 times – died Jan. 13 in Wilmington ... ....
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Vance to address March for Life rally in person; Trump to speak via video

Catholic Standard 20 Jan 2026
Vice President JD Vance is expected to address the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 23, organizers of the event said Jan. 16 ... President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Jan. 16 he recorded a video message for the event ... ....
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