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As Congress begins its discussion of the 2026 Farm Bill, the chairmen of two committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops warned that “the current proposal falls short of the Farm Bill’s historic bipartisanship.”

Archbishop Shelton Fabre, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace, weighed in on various aspects of the bill in a recent letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture.

The leaders of Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Rural Life, and National Council of the United States Society of St. Vincent de Paul joined the two prelates in signing the letter.

Conversions surge in Melbourne, Australia's largest diocese (Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne)

Posted on 02/26/2026 06:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Mirroring trends in parts of Europe and the United States, Australia’s most populous diocese, the Archdiocese of Melbourne, reported that a record number of catechumens and candidates will enter the Church this year at the Easter Vigil.

550 converts will enter the Church this year. The figure “reflects a 57% increase from 2025, which was already a 40% increase from 2024,” according to the archdiocese.

The Archdiocese of Sydney, the nation’s second-largest diocese, also reported a record number of conversions.

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