{"id":221000,"date":"2026-01-05T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/221000\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:13:09","slug":"the-25-most-popular-catholic-world-report-stories-and-articles-of-2025-catholic-world-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/221000\/","title":{"rendered":"The 25 most popular Catholic World Report stories and articles of 2025 \u2013 Catholic World Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. America\u2019s Most Fruitful Dioceses: A Look at the Numbers<\/a> (Nov. 3, 2025), by J.J. Zieger. \u201cCorrelation is not causation, but there does seem to be a terrible cost to souls once an American diocese grows over 700,000 Catholics: the combination of baptism, conversion, seminarian, and wedding rates inevitably falls below average.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. Three Sacred Heart Major Seminary professors have now been fired by Abp. Weisenburger<\/a> (July 25, 2025), by Matt McDonald for CNA.<\/p>\n

3. Notre Dame drops \u2018acceptance and support for Catholic mission\u2019 from staff values<\/a> (Nov 16, 2025) by Madalaine Elhabbal for CNA.<\/p>\n

4. Pope Francis, 1936-2025<\/a> (April 21, 2025) by Christopher R. Altieri. \u201cHis life and times were such that one may be forgiven some amazement at the fact that he came to sit in Peter\u2019s See at all. His reign was eventful and indeed momentous; it was also one of contradictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession<\/a> (Dec 4, 2024) by Sean Fitzpatrick. \u201cThough it may easily be passed off as a cloak-and-dagger Vatican thriller, Conclave betrays a serious concern that the world has for the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. Pope Leo XIV meets Fr. James Martin at the Vatican<\/a> (Sept 1, 2025), by Hannah Brockhaus for CNA.<\/p>\n

7. The Scandalous Case of Cardinal Cupich and Senator Durbin<\/a> (Sept. 20, 2025), by Jayd Henricks. \u201cWhy is the Archdiocese of Chicago giving a lifetime achievement award to a politician known for his aggressive support of abortion rights and \u2018same-sex marriage\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

8. Fr. James Martin\u2019s homosophistry takes advantage of a clear double standard<\/a> (July 10, 2025), by Larry Chapp. \u201cFr. Martin\u2019s true objective is the normalization of homosexual acts via indoctrination into the rainbow mythology of God-willed sexual fluidity. So why are so many Church leaders silent?\u201d<\/p>\n

9. Vatican cracks down on illegal entry into its territory<\/a> (Jan 15, 2025), by Almudena Mart\u00ednez-Bordi\u00fa for CNA.<\/p>\n

10. Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the United States: A Look at the Numbers<\/a> (Feb. 17, 2025), by J.J. Ziegler. \u201cWhile not every small diocese is \u2018vocation rich,\u2019 most \u2018vocation-rich\u2019 dioceses are small, and every diocese with more than a million Catholics attracts a below-average ratio of seminarians to Catholics.\u201d<\/p>\n

11. Report states an average of 30 Christians murdered each day in Nigeria in 2025<\/a> (Aug. 12, 2025), Ngala Killian Chimtom. \u201c19,100 churches have been destroyed, over 1,100 Christian communities displaced, and more than 600 Christian clerics have been abducted, according to the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety.\u201d<\/p>\n

12. Rome and the Church in the United States<\/a> (Dec. 10, 2025), by George Wiegel. \u201cIt is a sadness to think that the distorted picture of the U.S. Church that one finds internationally and in Rome has been confected by some American bishops who resent being part of a decided minority in the bishops\u2019 conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

13. Erika Kirk and the Beatitudes<\/a> (Sept. 23, 2025), by John Echaniz. \u201cEach of us can be \u2018part of the solution\u2019 by loving and forgiving as Erika Kirk did, completely, radically, vulnerably.\u201d<\/p>\n

14. What translation of Augustine\u2019s Confessions should I read?<\/a> (Nov. 11, 2024), by Dr. Jared Ortiz. \u201cThis updated essay, first posted in 2021, provides brief notes on several translations of Augustine\u2019s Confessions, along with translations of two famous passages for comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n

15. On the irony of theology-destroying, progressive Catholic theologians<\/a> (May 14, 2025), by Anne Hendershott. \u201cMassimo Faggioli has been part of a progressive movement to destroy the discipline of theology by transforming theology departments into soulless \u2018religious studies\u2019 departments that view the Catholic Church as oppressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

16. On Winters\u2019 barren attacks and Barron\u2019s effective evangelization<\/a> (June 6, 2025), by Larry Chapp. \u201cClaiming that Word on Fire is nothing more than a forum for offering canned and prepackaged nuggets of truth for a \u2018docile\u2019 audience is prissy nastiness devoid of even the slightest merit.\u201d<\/p>\n

17. Bishop Fernandes on vocations, the Latin Mass, Abp. Vigano, and developing a prayer life<\/a> (Aug. 25, 2025), by Jim Graves. \u201cThere was nothing ideological about [the traditional Latin Mass],\u201d says the Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, in a wide-ranging interview, \u201cwe wanted to offer the Mass to meet the pastoral need of the people. It is a beautiful part of the Church\u2019s tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

18. Catholics and gender ideology<\/a> (Sept. 24, 2025), by George Weigel. \u201c\u2018The Body Reveals the Person: A Catholic Response to the Challenges of Gender Ideology\u2019, by Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, is a thoughtful, beautifully illustrated, and thoroughly documented text that should be read in full.\u201d<\/p>\n

19. Ancient Advent Mass gains new interest among younger Catholics<\/a> (Dec. 14, 2025), by By Francesca Pollio Fenton for CNA.<\/p>\n

20. Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown<\/a> (March 20, 2025), by Matthew R. Petrusek, Ph.D. \u201cThe dogma underpinning recent attacks on Bishop Robert Barron and the Word on Fire apostolate is a mutant amalgamation of two archetypes of religion-gone-wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

21. \u201cBishop James V. Johnston: \u2018Make time to be quiet in the presence of the Lord. Go to Adoration\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/a> (Dec. 19, 2025), by Jim Graves: \u201cThe bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, reflects on the priesthood, his father\u2019s late-life conversion, evangelization, and Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

22. The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard<\/a> (Nov. 4, 2025), by Carl E. Olson. \u201c\u2018Mater Populi Fidelis\u2019 comes off, in places, as an exercise in selective targeting while using argumentation that should, by all rights, be applied to a host of far more serious and immediate issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

23. The reign of Pope Francis in retrospect: A Catholic World Report symposium<\/a> (April 22, 2025), by Larry Chapp, David Deane, Robert Fastiggi, John M. Grondelski, Michael Heinlein, Jayd Henricks, Fr. Robert Imbelli, Matthew Ramage, and Amy Welborn.<\/p>\n

24. The miraculous crucifix of San Marcello and hope in the face of death<\/a> (Sept. 14, 2025), by Fr. Se\u00e1n Connolly. \u201cOn this Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, it is worth recalling the prodigies of God\u2019s loving mercy wrought through the miraculous crucifix of San Marcello so our own hope in the face of death might be strengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n

25. On Nick Fuentes and the rise of the woke right <\/a>(Nov. 14, 2025), by Marcus Peter. \u201cThe political right cannot restore civilization while imitating the nihilism of the left. It cannot claim to defend the West while rejecting the moral order that gave the West its coherence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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