LA IGLESIA EN EL MUNDO
Desde 1970, el número total de sacerdotes en el mundo ha disminuido en más de 12.000 (de casi 420.000 a casi 408.000), aunque el número de sacerdotes diocesanos aumentó en cerca de 8.000 (hasta 279.200), mientras que los sacerdotes religiosos se redujeron en casi 20.000. En el mismo período, el número de religiosas cayó significativamente en 400.000, de más de un millón a casi 600.000, y el de hermanos religiosos disminuyó en 30.000, de 79.000 a 49.000. Actualmente hay en el mundo casi 49.500 diáconos permanentes, cuando en los años 70 del siglo XX solo había 309. Aunque el número de católicos en el mundo creció en los últimos cincuenta años de más de 650 millones a 1.405 millones, el porcentaje de católicos en la población global se mantiene relativamente estable en torno al 18%.
https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54055
LIST OF PONTIFFS
https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/holy-father.html
The 21 Ecumenical Councils
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-21-ecumenical-councils&lang=en
The Hierarchy of the Church / The Unity of the Christians
Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica
Los fieles de Cristo: jerarquía, laicos, vida consagrada (871-945)
https://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism_sp/p123a9p4_sp.html
Catechism of the Catholic Church
CHRIST’S FAITHFUL – HIERARCHY, LAITY, CONSECRATED LIFE
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2A.HTM
El Año Litúrgico explicado: Colores, ciclos y Tiempos. | Curso de Liturgia para Laicos
¿Por qué tenemos 2 Credos en la Iglesia?
TLM than Novus Ordo? Ordinary Form of the Mass?
Les 21 Conciles œcuméniques de l’Eglise catholique : de Nicée I en 325 à Vatican II en 1962-1965
The Hierarchy of the Church / The Unity of the Christians
¿Sabías que la Iglesia católica está constituida por 24 Iglesias autónomas?
The Legacy of Women Doctors of the Church in Rome | EWTN Vaticano
Francisco cambia el rito de exequias de los Papas
https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=50983
COMMUNION OF THE SAINTS
COPTIC CATHOLIC CHURCH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church
Coptic Orthodox Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church
EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church in full communion with the pope in Rome. Although they are distinct theologically, liturgically, and historically from the Latin Church, they are all in full communion with it and with each other. Eastern Catholics are a minority within the Catholic Church; of the 1.3 billion Catholics in communion with the pope, approximately 18 million are members of the Eastern churches. The largest numbers of Eastern Catholics are found in Eastern Europe, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and India. As of 2022, the Syro-Malabar Church is the largest Eastern Catholic Church, followed by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
With the exception of the Maronite Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches are groups that, at different points in the past, used to belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, or the Church of the East; these churches underwent various schisms through history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church
The Liturgy of the Hours Explained (w/ Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Pope Leo on Religious Freedom
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/october/documents/20251010-acs.html?s=03
God does miracles all the time. About 40 miracles are approved by the Vatican every day. The Devil Doesn’t Want You To Know About These Miracles – Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi Explains.
MONASTERIOS DE CLAUSURA
Cerca de un 30% de los monasterios de clausura del mundo está en España. La generosidad de los fieles ha salvado, literalmente, a muchos conventos en este frío invierno.
Generosidad que salva. DeClausura recauda 100.000 euros en dos semanas para ayudar a 80 monasterios con la calefacción
https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=54284
Sigue la disminución del número de sacerdotes, religiosos y el desplome de religiosas
https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/delapsis.php/2510180211-sigue-la-disminucion-del-nume
The biblical case for the papacy does not rest solely on Matthew 16:18-19 – No Rocks Required?
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/no-rocks-required
“153 fish” – John 21:11
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/153-fishes-and-related-matters
St. Jerome, for instance, tells us that this was the number of species of fish that ancient science had identified. John’s point in recording this number, then, is that Peter and the apostles, being “fishers of men” are being given a symbolic charge by the Risen Christ to bring in all the nations of the earth in the “great net” of the Kingdom of God.