The Croatia national football team, including captain Luka Modrić, attend Mass in their homeland ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Image: Riječka nadbiskupija
@sonipermana046@JesusSavesUs777 You are in denial. Just a few days ago a church a mob attacked a church in Jogjakarta. In Indonesia Christian pray in churches not on the streets and also they don't create a sound pollution by using loudspeakers
Eleven people became Catholic at York Oratory in England on Pentecost. One of them, an Anglican convert to the faith, sent me this message.
“Your posts have been a great inspiration for coming to the faith”
Image: York Oratory
Spanish climbers restored a cross to the summit of Spain's Aneto mountain after it was vandalised again. It had originally been placed there by 18-year-old Frenchman Maël Le Lagadec to replace a
decades-old cross that had also been destroyed.
Video: Jose Roman
Every year, rose petals rain down through the oculus of the Pantheon in a stunning tradition symbolizing the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
Video: Compagni di viaggio
Happy Birthday to the Long-Standing Rock: 2,000 Years and Still Unshaken
The Catholic Church stands as the only institution in the world with an unbroken 2,000-year history. It has endured and outlasted relentless assaults from every age—persecution under Roman emperors like Nero, invasions by the Ottoman Empire, the aggressions of Napoleon, the brutal repression of communist regimes, and the ongoing challenges of secularism. Yet, despite centuries of opposition, it not only survives but thrives, continuing to lead over 1.4 billion faithful around the globe. And it will continue to stand firm until the Second Coming of Christ, as Christ Himself promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against it.
Atheists: The Catholic Church has always been against science
Meanwhile the Church:
• Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest; proposed the “primeval atom” theory, which became the foundation of the modern Big Bang cosmological model.
• Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar; discovered the laws of inheritance (Mendelian genetics), forming the basis of modern genetics.
• Nicolaus Copernicus — Catholic canon; developed the heliocentric model (Sun-centered solar system), transforming astronomy.
• Christopher Clavius — Jesuit priest; principal mathematician behind the Gregorian calendar reform still used worldwide today.
• Roger Boscovich — Jesuit priest; early theory of atomic structure and force fields, influencing modern physics concepts.
• Angelo Secchi — Jesuit priest; pioneer of astrophysics and first classification system of stars based on spectra.
• Francesco Maria Grimaldi — Jesuit priest; discovered diffraction of light and contributed to wave theory of optics.
• Jean Picard — Catholic priest; first highly accurate measurement of Earth’s radius using modern scientific instruments.
• Nicolas Steno — Catholic bishop; founded stratigraphy (law of superposition), a foundation of modern geology.
• Marin Mersenne — Minim friar; “Mersenne primes” in number theory are named after him; also built scientific communication networks across Europe.
• Benito Viñes — Jesuit priest; developed early hurricane tracking and forecasting methods in Cuba.
As many as 1,700 passengers are being held on board a cruise ship in southwest France, after dozens of cases of possible gastroenteritis on board. https://t.co/DH7giP6AFi
A 45-year-old Catholic nun, Nadir Santos da Silva, died in Sicily, Italy, after saving two fellow nuns from the sea, before losing her own life.
Info: The Diocese of Séez
A Christian is killed every 2 hours in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 70% of all Christians killed for their faith last year were Nigerian. And yet 94% of Nigerian Catholics still show up to Mass every Sunday. The highest attendance rate on the planet.
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Costa Rican President Laura Fernández, a Catholic, began her presidential term by attending a Mass in which she entrusted her government to God and to the Virgin Mary.
Video: Presidential office