The Catholic Church in Germany lost nearly 550,000 members in 2025 and only recorded 25 priestly ordinations nationwide. The German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) has published preliminary figures for 2025 across all German dioceses, showing another year of a massive exodus from the Church. Around 307,000 people left the Catholic Church, while 2,269 joined and 5,443 were readmitted. However, if one factors in the deaths, the Church shrank by 549,636 persons compared to the previous year. This represents a slight decrease from the previous year, when the Church lost around 575,000 members. Most notably, only 25 priests were consecrated in all German dioceses, excluding religious orders, which are recorded separately. The number of baptisms has declined once again, with 109,028 recorded in 2025 compared to 116,274 in 2024. The same applies to Catholic weddings, which numbered 19,478 (2024: 22,513). The numbers remained stable for First Communions at 152,357 (2024: 151,702) and for Confirmation …
In an explosive revelation that will feature prominently in his forthcoming book on the new pontiff, Faith & Reason co-host Fr. Charles Murr has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV — then Fr. Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. — actively participated in a pagan Pachamama “Mother Earth” agricultural ritual while attending an official Augustinian theological symposium. The story was first brought to light by Fr. Murr, who has spent months meticulously compiling documentation for his upcoming book on Leo XIV. Three Augustinian priests have now independently confirmed to Fr. Murr that Robert Prevost is clearly visible among the kneeling participants in the central photograph. Although none of the three were present at the 1995 ritual itself, they immediately and unmistakably recognized their confrere from the published image. The image appears in the official proceedings of the IV Simposio-Taller “Lectura de San Agustín desde América Latina” (São Paulo, January 23-28, 1995), published as the book …
It takes a convert to Catholicism like a Carrie Prejean Boller to have the courage, more like the coglioni, to defend Catholic teaching. Shame on the bishops. The mitre has become just part of the dress code
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently conducted an initial meeting of the Laudato Si�� Leadership Cohort, a program committed to training diocesan leaders in how to implement Laudato Si’ in their local diocese. The initial meeting was funding by Crimsonbridge Foundation, a progressive non-profit with close ties to the USCCB (see note on bottom of this page). During a January East Coast snowstorm, 18 diocesan representatives gathered in person in Washington D.C. to discuss how faith called them to respond to the climate crisis. Starting on Friday, Jan. 23, Washington D.C. declared a state of emergency. The nor’easter dropped more than half a foot of snow on the capital. On top of the snow, sleet rained down and froze into what local agencies described as “snowcrete.” The Washington Post reported that the accumulated snow and ice were equivalent to 20 inches of snowfall. The representatives of these 18 dioceses—appointed by their bishops—were unfazed by …
Saint Thomas Aquinas commenting on Romans 1 pointed out that sodomites are idolaters: (Rm 6,23): The wages of sin is death. All their idols will be burned in the fire ((Micah 1,7). And it is noteworthy that the Apostle very reasonably assigns to vices against nature, which are very serious among carnal sins, the punishment of idolatry (...) And Saint Paul also points out in Romans 1:32 that the defenders of sodomy are themselves sodomites.
After just declaring bankruptcy due to sexual abuse claims, Bishop Seitz returns to his campaign of supporting illegal immigration. El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz says the “current campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity.” Seitz issued a pastoral letter on mass detentions and mass deportations after Mass on Sunday, March 12. The diocese says it is the first pastoral letter released by a Catholic bishop on this subject. “Our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, told me personally to stand in solidarity with suffering migrant families and not to remain silent,” Seitz wrote. “I will do everything I can to uphold the God-given dignity of every person in our borderlands community.” Seitz said that the El Paso Catholic Church “will redouble our ministries with those in the downtown courthouse, in the detention centers, in Ciudad Juarez and with families in our parishes.” “We will continue …
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is opening its pulpits to error with a new directive for pastors naming Carrie Prejean Boller—a recently ousted member of President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission—for her recitation of perennial Church teaching on Jews and Zionism. The USCCB’s Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs brings her up by name in the directive in what can only seem like an attempt to paint her in a negative light: Carrie Prejean Boller, a recent convert to Catholicism, sparked widespread controversy when she disputed that blaming Jews for Jesus’ death is antisemitic, defended public figures accused of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, declared that Catholics do not embrace Zionism, and repeatedly pressed Jewish witnesses on Israel’s actions in Gaza. Citing “media personalities” for making misleading statements on Church teaching, the memo provides four arguments for pastors, citing magisterial and non-magisterial sources. …