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LGBTQ pilgrimage brings controversy to Vatican basilica
More than 1,000 people marched through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s basilica on September 6, in what organizers described as an LGBTQ Jubilee pilgrimage. The participants sparked outrage...Free eBook:
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Pope Leo offers pointed guidance to Amazon region’s bishops
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, offered pointed guidance from Pope Leo XIV to the bishops of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon as they held their first assembly...Pope Leo encourages moral theologians to follow example of St. Alphonsus Liguori
Pope Leo XIV encouraged moral theologians to follow the example of St. Alphonsus de Liguori, the patron saint of moral theologians. The encouragement came in a papal telegram from Cardinal Pietro...Ecumenical Patriarch: Only another ecumenical council can modify the calculation of the date of Easter
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches, said in an interview that only another ecumenical council is able to modify the...Learn from St. Augustine’s City of God, Pontiff tells Catholic lawmakers
Pope Leo XIV received members of the International Catholic Legislators Network on August 23 and encouraged them to learn from St. Augustine’s The City of God, in which the “Church...Mass shooting during Mass at Catholic school in Minneapolis
At least two children were killed, and another 17 people wounded, when a shooter opened fire on the congregation at a Mass being celebrated for Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27.The shooter was identified as Robin Westman, a young man who had chosen to live as a woman, and who posted a disturbing hate-laced manifesto online before the massacre, in which he announced “I am not well.” After shooting through the windows of the church, he shot himself, and died of the wound.
Pope Leo XIV sent a message to Archbishop Bernard Hebda of Minneapolis expressing “his heartfelt condolences and the assurance of spiritual closeness to all those affected by this terrible tragedy, especially the families now grieving the loss of a child.”
Vatican cardinal, newspaper react to Minneapolis church shooting
The prefect of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Culture and Education sent a telegram to Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis following the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting,...Cardinal Grech renews Synod’s call for greater participation of women in Church leadership
In a September 4 address to a Mariological conference, Cardinal Mario Grech, appointed secretary general of the Synod of Bishops in 2020, renewed the synod on synodality’s call for greater...Idaho Courage chaplain arrested for sexual battery
Bishop Peter Christensen of Boise, Idaho, announced the arrest of Father Robert Mendez, a priest who ministers in Nampa, on charges of sexual battery of a minor. The alleged incident took place on August 14.The arrest took place less than two years after the bishop established a diocesan chapter of the Courage apostolate and named Father Mendez its chaplain. The apostolate seeks to minister, in a manner faithful to Church teaching, to persons who experience same-sex attractions.
Pontifical academy president sees ‘great thirst’ to understand the Blessed Virgin Mary
The president of the Pontifical International Marian Academy sees a “great thirst in the world to better understand the Virgin Mary,” Vatican News reported, as the academy hosted the 26th International Mariological Marian Congress.The “key” that opens the path of the new evangelization “is precisely the figure of Mary,” said Father Stefano Cecchin, OFM. “ She is the glorious Mother of God, exalted Queen of heaven and earth. But to achieve that reality, she was a true woman and therefore a model for humanity.”
“We must rediscover a Mary who is a friend, a Mary who is a companion, a Mary who truly and fully lived her human life,” he added. “Mary, a friend who walks with you because she desires—we have a fabulous example at the wedding at Cana—that you have good wine, an image of love, an image of the fulfillment of your life.”
