Due to various factors including scandal and a mandatory church tax, more than 400,000 people left the Catholic Church in Germany in the last year. However, departures have gone down since 2022.

Multiple people with ties to the U.S. bishops’ conference said they had been informed staffing across the department of Justice, Peace & Human Development was cut by 50%.

Pope Francis' support for the Anglican-based mission of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was celebrated by the first bishop of the special diocese, Bishop David Waller.

Even so, Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider said claims of Pope Francis’ illegitimacy are unfounded.

Despite past tensions with Pope Francis and a period without assignment, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary, has been appointed as the apostolic nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.

Spanish Jesuit Luis María Roma, who died in 2019, was recently discovered to have abused hundreds of Indigenous girls while serving as a missionary in rural Bolivia, and to have documented his acts in a diary.