Stories for week of June 29, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Tuesday, Jul. 1

 Weighing in on federal budget, bishops’ pro-life chairman welcomes defunding of abortion, laments IVF
 New US archbishops reflect on the importance of fostering unity
 Vietnam’s VP meets with Pope
 ‘Beauty is an antidote to cynicism,’ Cardinal Parolin says at world’s fair
 São Tomé and Príncipe’s president meets with Pontiff
 Fidelity to the Gospel is ‘the best way forward,’ Pope tells women religious
 Papal prayer for Central African school tragedy victims
 Vatican prefect thanks Ukranian Greek Catholic Church for remaining source of hope
 July papal prayer intention: for formation in discernment
 Pope Leo decries ‘iniquitous use of hunger as a weapon of war’
 Vatican newspaper analyzes American efforts at regime change
 Vatican cardinal, in Sea Sunday message, encourages seafarers to be prophets of peace
 Pope accepts resignation of accused Swiss abbot; 29-year-old prior assumes governance

Released Monday, Jun. 30

 Pope, in Angelus address, reflects on ‘ecumenism of blood’ of persecuted Christians
 Papal homily for Saints Peter and Paul emphasizes ecclesial communion, vitality of faith
 Monastic life recalls primacy of God, Pope tells Vallombrosians
 Bishops’ religious-liberty chairman welcomes Supreme Court decision on parental rights in education
 Equatorial Guinea’s president meets with Pontiff
 Trinitarians focus on dialogue to help persecuted Christians, superior general says
 Pope expresses closeness to Ukraine, pays tribute to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s heritage
 Holy See ‘deeply concerned’ as nations withdraw from anti-landmine treaty
 Criticizing resistance to synodality, Cardinal Grech calls for permanent forum
 Peter’s Pence had $20.4M deficit in 2024
 Pope Leo says he is open to Ecumenical Patriarchate’s suggestions toward restoring full communion
 Papal message to priests: In the Heart of Christ, ‘we discover the true nature of our ministry’

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates Sts. Processus and Martinian whose bodies lie in a chapel at St. Peter's in Rome. During the time when Sts. Peter and Paul were prisoners in the Mamertine, legend says that these two jailors together with forty others were converted through the prayers and miracles…

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