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Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti has sharply criticised the Vatican Apostolic Library’s decision to grant Muslim scholars a prayer room, calling it a sign of “religious indifferentism” and warning that Islam “always strives for dominance.”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin has held high-level meetings with Andorran leaders over proposals to decriminalise abortion, amid mounting pressure on the Holy See to agree a legal compromise compatible with the principality’s unique constitutional structure.

Former Bishop Reinhold Nann says he stepped down from ministry before marrying a Peruvian woman, despite the Vatican not having released him from his priestly vows.

The Vatican is preparing to repatriate a collection of Indigenous artefacts, including an Inuit kayak, from its Anima Mundi museum to communities in Canada.

Opus Dei responds to reports of major reform, stating that only its statutes are being updated to align with revised norms for personal prelatures, and reaffirming its mission to serve the Church “as the Church wishes to be served.”

Pope Leo XIV has canonised José Gregorio Hernández, the “doctor of the poor”, and Mother Carmen Rendiles Martínez, founder of the Handmaids of Jesus, marking Venezuela’s first canonisations and a moment of unity and faith for the nation.

A provincial court in Málaga has acquitted two priests and a journalist of hate crime charges over remarks critical of radical Islam, ending an eight-year legal battle that tested Spain’s boundaries on free expression in matters of religion.

Bishop Reinhold Nann, a former missionary in Peru, has admitted marrying a Peruvian woman in a civil ceremony without laicisation, citing loneliness and institutional failings, and reigniting debate over clerical celibacy.

Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg has accused the far-right party of using religious language to disguise an agenda that denies universal human dignity.

The state-backed ordination of Father Joseph Wu Jianlin without papal approval threatens to unravel years of cautious diplomacy between Rome and Beijing.

Vatican figures reveal that Africa remains the centre of Catholic vitality, gaining 1,285 priests and nine million new faithful in 2023, even as vocations and church attendance continue to fall sharply across Europe and the Americas.

Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers of Essen has denounced a prayer of reparation led by four bishops following an LGBTQ pilgrimage to the Vatican, calling it a “shameful act of exclusion” and urging the Church to repent for the harm it has caused to queer Catholics.

Archbishop Ajapahyan was arrested in June and accused of involvement in an alleged coup. Prosecutors said he had urged the removal of the government in a series of statements that were an incitement to regime change

Bishop José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez, a key figure in the formation of priests in Madrid and vicar general of the archdiocese, has died of a heart attack just over a year after his episcopal consecration.

A Catholic priest known for opposing organised crime was handed a bullet during Sunday Mass in Caivano, a Camorra-controlled town in southern Italy, prompting condemnation from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Cardinal Stephen Chow has rejected claims of religious persecution in Hong Kong, putting him at odds with his outspoken predecessor Cardinal Joseph Zen.