Europe

British supporters of the traditional Latin Mass have welcomed an unprecedented youth turnout at their annual pilgrimage, three months after record participation was also reported at a larger event in France.

The Vatican foreign minister urged Russian officials to end their war with Ukraine and to begin negotiations with the help of the international community.

Baptisms in the Catholic Church in Ireland have fallen by almost a third since 2015, with just one Irish diocese seeing any positive change, a new report shows.

All mosaics by disgraced priest Father Marko Rupnik adorning the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes will be covered ahead of Pope Leo XIV's September visit and will remain covered indefinitely.

Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine have been identified in a 12th-century manuscript preserved in Poland.

The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta offered emergency resources to civil authorities July 31 as more than 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, straining local infrastructure.

Wildfires burning through central Spain forced a community of Augustinian nuns to evacuate their monastery as flames threatened the region.

Locals in Bosnia and Herzegovina's famed Marian shrine Medjugorje began cleaning a vandalized statue of the Virgin Mary and repairing a burned outdoor altar, as police detained a Polish suspect and calls grew to avoid online attacks against the troubled man.

Catholic Church leaders in Switzerland have protested the “arbitrary” abolition of traditional military service exemptions for clergy.

France's bishops are strongly criticizing a "radical choice" made by French lawmakers to legalize "assisted dying."