A new report has found that Pope Francis’s favorability rating among American Catholics has fallen from 83 percent in 2021 to 75 percent in 2024, with those who view the pontiff unfavorably also saying he represents a change in the direction of the Church.
A distressing image is circulating on social media. The bodies of four young people have been dumped into the Ndzengwev stream in Kumbo – a flashpoint of separatist violence in Cameroon’s North West region.
Recent decrees issued by the Vatican office in charge of granting plenary indulgences, and approved by Pope Francis, grant a plenary indulgence to Catholics who participate in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and National Eucharistic Congress.