Stories for week of July 13, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 18

 Mexico City projects anti-Catholic images on cathedral facade
 James Hitchcock, Catholic historian and commentator, dead at 87
 Vatican slow to authorize use of papal image
 Two convicted of money-laundering in Caritas Luxembourg scandal
 Pope and Netanyahu talk after attack on Gaza church
 Benedictine abbey in Belgium temporarily dissolved following abuse allegations
 Memo calls for ‘generous’ religious accommodations in US executive branch
 9 people sentenced for murder of Myanmar priest
 Historian examines wartime record of Vatican radio, newspaper under Pius XII
 Vatican diplomat calls for immediate debt relief, says poverty is ‘central’ international priority
 EU, US bishops lament attack on Gaza parish
 Catholic parish, Christian homes set aflame in Syria
 Jerusalem’s Christian leaders deplore ‘heinous’ Israeli attack on Gaza’s Catholic parish

Released Thursday, Jul. 17

 Pope welcomes ecumenical pilgrims
 Venerable Belgian Catholic university discontinues Mass to open academic year
 Israeli forces hit Catholic parish in Gaza; two killed
 Vatican official jailed for child pornography returns to work in Secretariat of State
 Peruvian cardinal pushes back against critics as accused priest seeks laicization
 Recently ordained US priest sentenced to 7 years for abuse
 Chilean cardinal calls on presidential candidates to respect human dignity, eschew violence
 Federal appeals court upholds West Virginia law against abortion
 Gaza crisis has reached breaking point, Caritas warns
 USCCB issues 25-page report on Laudato Si’ activities
 Papal prayer for Taiwanese typhoon victims
 Support pro-family policies along with gender equality, Vatican diplomat says at UN
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ hails new Syro-Malankara theological institute as ‘beacon of hope’
 Vatican newspaper laments plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya community
 ‘It is always possible to come together’: papal message to charity soccer match

Released Wednesday, Jul. 16

 Pope sends food aid to stricken Ukrainian communities
 Venezuelan bishops urge government respect for human rights
 Miami’s Archbishop Wenski: Congress must fix immigration legislation
 Poland asks Vatican to rebuke bishops for anti-immigrant statements
 Google shuts down Italian Catholic blog
 Notre-Dame Cathedral welcomes more than 6 million visitors since reopening
 Cardinal Tobin, Greek Orthodox archbishop lead joint pilgrimage to Rome, Turkey
 Dig for children’s remains begins at Irish home for unwed mothers
 Organization assesses religious liberty by state; Florida ranks #1
 Chinese archbishop calls for end of wedding dowries
 ‘Every human life is sacred,’ Vatican diplomat says during UN forum on health care
 USCCB, other Catholic organizations urge FDA: Protect women from mifepristone
 Philippine cardinal criticizes government for fueling online gambling addiction
 Vietnamese prelate welcomes nation’s abolition of death penalty for 8 crimes
 Vatican ‘foreign minister,’ in India, lauds pioneer Syro-Malankara prelate
 European Parliament calls for protection of Syria’s Christians, other religious minorities

Released Tuesday, Jul. 15

 Pope celebrates Mass for carabinieri at Castel Gandolfo
 Church leaders protest Israeli settlers’ violence against Christian community
 Nigerian bishop confirms contact with kidnappers of seminarians
 Guam archbishop tells Pope: ‘we are sinking!’
 US dioceses vary widely on baptism rates
 Detroit archbishop joins clergy, laity in procession to ICE office
 NY Supreme Court halts payments to Buffalo abuse fund amid parish merger dispute
 USCCB committee chairman expresses ‘profound solidarity’ with DR Congo
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ embarks upon visit to India
 Pope gives paten, chalice to Castel Gandolfo priest
 Spanish bishop laments violent clashes with migrants
 Renewed papal appeal for peace
 Gaza parish priest speaks of dwindling food supplies
 Leading Italian prelate reflects on Pope’s invitation to make parishes ‘homes of peace’
 Polish cardinal denounces anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial
 Ukrainian synod concludes in Rome
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to Haiti, ‘the forgotten crisis’

Released Monday, Jul. 14

 Cardinal Turkson questions Ghana’s political leadership
 Castel Gandolfo welcomes Pontiff after years of absence
 New Syrian regime hostile to Christians, archbishop says
 Peruvian cardinal under fire for handling of abuse cases
 Pope signs jersey for former White Sox slugger
 Jailed Anglican prelate faces new abuse allegations
 European human rights court upholds right to private religious meetings
 Philippine bishops lament online gambling
 Jesus shows us the meaning of the love necessary for eternal life, Pontiff tells pilgrims
 Imitate Christ and show compassion to others, Pope Leo preaches in homily on the Good Samaritan
 Think of God’s plan of salvation, Pope tells 8 religious institutes
 USCCB rues FCC delay in implementing prisoner phone-rate reductions
 Vatican touts astrophysics discovery
 Colombia’s bishops seek to be ‘prophets of hope’ amid fragmentation, polarization
 Sarajevo archbishop laments Srebrenica genocide on 30th anniversary
 Canonist, in L’Osservatore Romano, calls for wholesale ‘synodal’ revision of canon law
 Vatican newspaper deplores killing of children in Gaza
 Martyred Marist brother beatified in Barcelona

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Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest (USA)

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1641). Camillus suffered an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other staff were drawn from the dregs of the population. He effected a great…

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