Jeanie Hannaman

By Ngala Killian Chimtom, Catholic World Report - The kidnapping, persecution, and killing of Christians has become a daily routine in a country nearly evenly divided between Christians and Muslims... A prominent Nigerian Catholic researcher and criminologist has issued a stark warning: Christianity could disappear from Nigeria within the next 50 years if the persecution of Christians continues and an agenda of Islamization succeeds.

By Luke Larson, National Catholic Register - In a 2008 address in Washington, D.C., Pope Benedict told the U.S. bishops that “the ability to cultivate vocations to the priesthood and the religious life is a sure sign of the health of a local Church.”... By Benedict’s metric, some American dioceses are thriving today, producing lots of priestly vocations from holy families, schools and parishes. Others are struggling.

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, The Catholic Thing - Anecdotal evidence, while not necessarily without value or verity, needs solid facts to become confirmed as reality. For the last several years, there has been much talk of increasing numbers of young people, particularly men, coming to orthodox Christianity and, in particular, to the Catholic Faith.