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Pope Francis Canonized Almost 1000 Saints During His Papacy - Here's Some of Them - : As we celebrate Pope Francis' 10th anniversary, let us contemplate his legacy by remembering the saints he canonized.

The Numeric State of the Catholic Church Up to 2023  - ZENIT - English : Vatican published its most recent data on the numeric state of the Church. (ZENIT News / Rome, 06.03.2023).- The <2022> Pontifical Yearbook and the 2021  Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae , edited by the Central Office of Ecclesiastical Statistics, and published by the  Libreria Editrice Vaticana,  are already in bookstores.  The Pontifical Yearbook offers information on the life of the Catholic Church in the world, from December1, 2021 to November 30, 2022.  During this period, four Bishoprics were erected (three Dioceses and one Eparchy); two dioceses were united; a territorial Prelature was raised to a diocese; and a diocese became and Apostolic Exarchate. The  Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae  provides data on the principal dynamics that characterize pastoral action in the Catholic Church in the 3,030 ecclesiastical circumscriptions of the world.  Following are some notes on the quantitative aspects that se

My Year in a Carmelite Monastery: 5 Beautiful Lessons Laypeople Can Apply to Daily Life - : Cecilia Allen shares her experience as Carmelite monastery postulant. She hopes to carry Carmel’s beauty and spirituality into daily life.

       Image =Remains of Katherine of Aragon, Roman Catholic  Queen of England To identify as a Christian in the English speaking world there are three choices:  One is either a Roman Catholic (RC) (the original Christians) or a  Anglican (C of E) (created by Henry VIII and the official state religion in the UK) or a Non-conformist (NC), In English church history, the Nonconformists are Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established state church,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)

  Schism in the Anglican Communion: 75% Break with England Over Gay Blessings and Putting in Doubt God’s Gender - ZENIT - English https://zenit.org/2023/03/01/schism-in-the-anglican-communion-75-break-with-england-over-gay-blessings-and-putting-in-doubt-gods-gender/?eti=8905 Schism in the Anglican Communion: 75% Break with England Over Gay Blessings and Putting in Doubt God’s Gender Since February 2023, a large number of Anglican communities of Africa, Asia and South America have severed communion with England over doctrinal and ethical discrepancies, especially in regard to homosexuality. Rafael Manuel Tovar (ZENIT News / London, 01.03.2023).- Anglican Churches unite in the Anglican Communion, which brings together all the dioceses of the world. The Church of England, where Anglicanism was born and which has the Archbishop of Canterbury as its Primate, heads all the Anglican Churches around the world, which arose outside the British Isles. All together they number some 98 million peo