February 12, 2026

The week in quotations

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"If the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the Christian presence"
Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of Dori, Burkina Faso, says the country’s jihadists rely on the international arms trade
Interview with Aid to the Church in Need

"A pretext for changing the Church"
Cardinal Gerhard Müller on the Amazon synod
La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana

" profound invasion of rights"
UK Court of Appeal judgment overturning a forced-abortion ruling

Statistic of the week


8,193

Catholics per new priest in Myanmar (the best ratio: in Great Britain there are more than 50,000 Catholics for every new ordinand)
Source: CARA

"If the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the Christian presence"
Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of Dori, Burkina Faso, says the country’s jihadists rely on the international arms trade
Interview with Aid to the Church in Need

"A pretext for changing the Church"
Cardinal Gerhard Müller on the Amazon synod
La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana

" profound invasion of rights"
UK Court of Appeal judgment overturning a forced-abortion ruling

Statistic of the week


8,193

Catholics per new priest in Myanmar (the best ratio: in Great Britain there are more than 50,000 Catholics for every new ordinand)
Source: CARA

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