News Analysis

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  8 October 2026
  Missions in upheaval: World Mission Sunday during the years of war by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – “Our missionaries are there, standing firm in the trenches of faith, like watchful sentinels at the outposts.” On 19 October 1940, as the war was also devast ...
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  29 September 2026
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - “The fate of the flock is my fate”: Bishop Anthony Corcoran’s missionary road by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Biškek (Fides News Agency) – On September 29, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo will lay his hands on the head of Father Anthony Corcoran, an American-born Jesuit, who will become a bishop that day. ...
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  29 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/XI - Leo XIV in Metz: Europe seeks peace in the "Lantern of the Good Lord" by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Metz (Fides News Agency) – “An American Pope speaking from Metz, on the border with Germany, about “De Gasperi” with a French accent,” journalist Iacopo Scaramuzzi wrote on the social ...
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  26 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VIII - The journey of Leo XIV celebrates the intertwining of popular Christianity and the understanding of faith by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) - The Pope’s visit to France was eagerly awaited, and Leo XIV’s first day in the country has already been a success. One needed only to hear the 80,000 young peopl ...
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  25 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VII - Historian Dumont: Leo XIV’s visit comes amid expectations of a “new missionary impetus” by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides News Agency) – Historian Martin Dumont has just published a book on the long history of relations between the popes and France (La France dans la pensée des papes, Éditions du ...
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  22 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/IV - Sons and Daughters of the same Father. Fulton Sheen and racial segregation by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rochester (Fides News Agency) – “All around us there are people who never stop hating someone or something, shouting: 'Down with capitalism! Down with labor unions! Down with religion! Down ...
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  18 September 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/VI - Leo XIV in Paris: A missionary topography by Marie-Lucile Kubacki On September 25 and 26, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Paris and Saint-Denis, the first French stops on a journey that will also take him to Lourdes and Metz. Over the course of these two days, hi ...
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  15 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/III - An American at the Second Vatican Council: Archbishop Sheen’s contribution to the Decree “Ad gentes” on the Church’s missionary activity by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – It is a little-known episode of the Second Vatican Council, but its decree on the missions owes much to a single American bishop: Fulton J. Sheen. Among ...
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  14 September 2026
  The Centenary of the consecration of Six Chinese Bishops and the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China by Paul Han* Shijiazhuang (Fides News Agency) –Fides News Agency publishes this article by Chinese priest Paul Han as a contribution to reflection and further study in view of the forthcoming Centenary of the episco ...
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  7 September 2026
  BEATIFICATION OF FULTON SHEEN/II - Beyond the clichés. Fulton Sheen's lessons in ‘communication’ by Marie-Lucile Kubacki New York (Fides News Agency) - The future Blessed did not conquer America solely thanks to the rise of television. His popularity arose from the combination of rigorous theological preparation ...
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  19 August 2026
  POPE IN FRANCE/II - Behind the figures: the fragmented and “indecipherable” expectations that will greet Leo XIV by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Paris (Fides news Agency) – An exceptional mobilization is taking shape ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France. Tickets for the events scheduled during the papal visit have been snapped u ...
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  31 July 2026
  The Manual of Latin American Ecclesial Communities to address the addiction crisis: A story of Communion by Monica Poletto Bogotá (Fides News Agency) – The meeting is scheduled for the end of August in Rome. For two days, a group of men and women from across Latin America who contributed to the development and draftin ...
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  24 July 2026
  At the Shrine of Banneux, the first Marian Missionary Festival: Mary, face of dialogue and mission in Asia by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Banneux (Fides News Agency) –Showing the link that unites devotion to the Mother of God with the missionary vocation, and the joy of proclaiming the Gospel, an experience open to every baptiz ...
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  10 July 2026
  "Christianity is only just beginning": How Leo XIV's missionary vision is rooted in the Acts of the Apostles by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Rome (Fides News Agency) – “Your regular book for prayer and meditation should be the Acts of the Apostles. Go there to find your inspiration. And the protagonist of that book is the Holy S ...
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  9 July 2026
  Defending land means defending life: Latin American Churches Stand alongside communities in mining conflicts by Laura Gómez Ruiz Chitré (Fides News Agency) – "Our only concern is to safeguard the life of every human being." With these words, Bishop Rafael Valdivieso of Chitré recently summed up the concern of the Cathol ...