Stories for September 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Wednesday, Sep. 10

 Pope renews prayers for peace
 American priest named worldwide Augustinian leader
 Pope creates new Chinese diocese,
 Heed Christ’s last cry from the Cross, Pope tells audience
 School’s transgender bathroom policy did not violate religious-freedom rights, federal court rules
 Care for creation, bishop urges following landslide in Sudan
 USCCB, CRS publish Catholic vision for humanitarian, development assistance
 In Myanmar, ‘no place is safe,’ nun says
 ‘There can be no true peace without climate justice,’ Catholic organizations emphasize
 Israeli military orders all Gaza City residents to evacuate; Pope contacts parish
 Image of Our Lady of Luján blessed in Vatican Gardens
 Vatican cardinal tells Bangladesh to uphold rule of law, equality
 Pope calls for prayer following Israeli attack in Qatar
 Vatican newspaper laments monsoons, climate change in Pakistan

Released Tuesday, Sep. 9

 Orthodox protest Egypt’s plans for development on Mt. Sinai
 Traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s approved for Jubilee pilgrimage
 New Orleans archdiocese accepts $230-million bankruptcy settlement
 Pope returns to Castel Gandolfo for a day’s break
 Pope likens inter-religious dialogue to cultivating a garden of peace
 Pakistani Catholic pilgrim killed by Muslim mob
 Congo priest recovering after being shot by robbers
 Papal condolences follow death of Roman mayor’s mother
 Society of Divine Word marks 150th anniversary
 Vatican cardinal hails martyr of Communism as ‘conscience of Romanians’
 The Virgin Mary has long been called the Mediatrix of graces, Leo XIV writes in letter
 Pope to preside at ecumenical prayer service for 21st-century martyrs
 Bishop Oster, critic of German Synodal Way, has ‘encouraging’ audience with Pope Leo
 Pope Leo receives presidents of Catholic Leadership Institute, Legatus
 Pontiff, Cardinal Grech discuss synod’s implementation phase
 Ukrainian Catholic leader calls for continued Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation

Released Monday, Sep. 8

 LGBTQ pilgrimage brings controversy to Vatican basilica
 Archbishop Broglio calls for prayer for peace, condemns expansion of Israeli settlements
 Vatican diplomat rues resurgence of aggressive nuclear rhetoric
 EWTN News president meets with Pontiff
 Leo XIV encourages Mediterranean youth to cultivate peace, witness to Christ
 Pontiff dedicates Laudato Si’ Village
 ‘The Church needs Mariology,’ Pope tells pontifical academy
 Dig for the Cross as St. Helena did, Pope Leo tells pilgrims at jubilee audience
 Pope Leo canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati, Carlo Acutis
 ‘Listen to the voice of conscience,’ Pope says in new peace appeal to world leaders
 Martyrs of Soviet Communism beatified in Estonia, Hungary

Released Friday, Sep. 5

 Polish president meets with Pontiff
 Duchess of Kent, Catholic convert, dead at 92
 Syrian Catholic cleric robbed at gunpoint
 Pontiff, IAEA head discuss nuclear non-proliferation
 Texas attorney general encourages students to read Bible, pray the Lord’s Prayer
 Statue beheaded in Germany’s oldest cathedral
 Church in Iceland is ‘most dynamic in Europe,’ bishop says
 Catholic university leaders in Indonesia criticize government corruption
 USCCB: Observe September 9 as National Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities
 Pontifical academy president sees ‘great thirst’ to understand the Blessed Virgin Mary
 Cardinal Grech renews Synod’s call for greater participation of women in Church leadership
 Leading German bishop, Pope Leo discuss ‘many topics’
 Holy Land custos expresses deep concern for Gaza’s Christians, other residents
 Vatican newspaper laments international ‘education emergency’

Released Thursday, Sep. 4

 Israeli President Herzog meets with Pope
 Papal condolences after Lisbon streetcar disaster
 King Charles visits Birmingham Oratory, room of St. John Henry Newman
 Man arrested after threatening California abbey
 Jubilee pilgrims reach 24-million mark
 USCCB, ACLU file Supreme Court briefs on behalf of NJ crisis pregnancy centers
 Holy See ‘deeply concerned’ about young people and armed conflicts
 Vatican City State, other nations issue Frassati, Acutis stamps
 ‘Help us to discover Your presence in all creation,’ Pope prays in video
 Jesus Bikers meet with Pope, who autographs motorcycle for charity
 L’Osservatore Romano sees ‘shipwreck of civilization’ in ‘fear of foreigners, fueled by populism’
 Vatican newspaper laments world’s indifference to Myanmar regime’s atrocities
 Leo XIV pays tribute to predecessor, Pope St. Gregory the Great
 Pope Leo: Ask Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati, Carlo Acutis to pray for students
 Pope rues humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, issues appeal

Released Wednesday, Sep. 3

 Bolivian court sentences two Jesuit provincials for cover-ups
 Pope reflects on last words of Jesus
 Wisconsin diocesan worship director arrested in sting operation
 Idaho Courage chaplain arrested for sexual battery
 Judge accepts Syracuse diocese’s $176M bankruptcy plan
 Federal court strikes down Minnesota’s faith-statement ban for dual-enrollment courses
 Historic Franciscan church vandalized in Italy
 Course for 192 new bishops begins in Rome
 USCCB committee calls for permanent reauthorization of Religious Worker Visa Program
 Pontiff mourns Sudanese landslide victims
 Vatican spokesman denounces proposal to relocate Gaza’s population
 Pope encourages Augustinian confrères to listen, be humble, and seek unity

Released Tuesday, Sep. 2

 Montreal archbishop opposes ban on public prayer
 New Orleans parishes face financial squeeze during archdiocesan bankruptcy
 Canadian study finds mental-health complaints rise after abortions
 Has Vatican resolved crisis in Syro-Malabar Church
 Vatican newspaper republishes ‘prophetic’ text by Teilhard
 Priest brutally murdered in Sierra Leone
 Caring for creation is a moral, spiritual responsibility, leading Philippine prelate says
 Prominent African cardinal helps lead global ecumenical Season of Creation prayer service
 Scale of Taliban’s oppression is ‘almost unimaginable,’ Nobel laureate tells Vatican spokesman
 Leo XIV recalls 650th anniversary of Ukraine’s leading Latin-rite archdiocese
 Assist, welcome, and promote the poor, Pope tells Milan charity workers
 Pontiff to celebrate 6 public Masses in October
 Papal prayer, solidarity for Afghanistan earthquake victims
 Pope Leo: Let us not ruin creation, God’s gift

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Wed10 September
Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

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Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates: —St. Nicholas of Tolentino (1245-1305), a native of Sant' Angelo, in the diocese of Fermo, was born about the year 1245. As a young man, but already endowed with a canon's stall, he was one day greatly affected by a sermon preached by a Hermit of St.…

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