Stories for week of April 13, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Apr. 18

 In Easter encyclical, Ecumenical Patriarch recalls Nicaea anniversary
 Pope’s Good Friday meditations emphasize God’s promises
 Cardinal Parolin speaks on Ukraine, Gaza, and Trump
 Jerusalem’s Christian leaders issue Easter message
 Vatican forbids removal of names from baptismal registers
 80,000 register for Jubilee of Teenagers
 Texas House passes $1B school-choice legislation backed by bishops
 Vatican informed of allegations against Abbé Pierre in 1955, French journalists find
 Once-secret records show how San Francisco archdiocese handled abuse allegations
 Religious sister accused of ‘forced conversion’ in central India
 Judge bars enforcement of Biden-era regulations against diocese, employer
 Over 2,000 to be baptized in Malaysia on Easter Vigil
 USCCB publishes Q and A on immigrant registration

Released Thursday, Apr. 17

 Lourdes sanctuary announces 72nd confirmed miracle
 At Chrism Mass, Pope’s message calls priests to ministry of hope
 Chartres pilgrimage organizers: early registrations overwhelm system
 Rome’s rabbi, Pope exchanges greetings
 Pope makes Holy Thursday visit to Rome prison
 New French converts cite influence of social media
 Jerusalem patriarch exhorts priests to hope in Jesus
 Detroit’s new archbishop ends traditional Latin Mass in parishes
 Father Lazzarotto, pioneer of relations with China in 1970s, dies at 99
 Pope recommends lower holiday travel fares to reunite families
 Vatican spokesman defends historicity of Resurrection accounts
 Corruption is destroying Kenya, bishop warns
 West Virginia enacts Parents’ Bill of Rights
 Typical new US priest: 34-year-old cradle Catholic who prays Rosary, takes part in Eucharistic adoration
 Cardinal Parolin, VP Vance to meet in Rome

Released Wednesday, Apr. 16

 UK Supreme Court rules sex is biological
 Pope launches new catechetical series on parables
 Vatican sending donation to help Myanmar earthquake victims
 Phoenix diocese opens new seminary
 Vatican lists celebrants for Easter vigil, Easter Sunday
 Pope hosts Gemelli Hospital staff at private audience
 Nicaragua bans processions, public Easter celebrations
 US author Marilynne Robinson writes front-page Easter reflection for Vatican newspaper
 Holy Land’s former Custos decries indifference to Gaza’s suffering
 Situation for Sudan’s Catholics is ‘dire’; Trump aid cuts, says missionary, are compounding civil war’s tragedy
 Vatican diplomat calls for governance of AI, rues lack of progress toward universal connectivity
 Cardinal Parolin, in book preface, hails greatness of Chinese civilization
 Federal judge declines to halt Trump administration’s immigration-raid policy
 Archbishop, other Catholic leaders implore Congress: Protect Medicaid, SNAP, Child Tax Credit

Released Tuesday, Apr. 15

 Pope updates curriculum for Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
 Convicted Bishop Zanchetta overdue for return to Argentine house arrest?
 English dioceses report surge in young adult male converts
 Peru-based lay movement, Sodality of Christian Life, formally suppressed
 Vatican updates on papal health, Holy Week schedule
 Armenian leader protests Vatican conference on Azerbaijan
 New revelations bolster Cardinal Becciu’s claim of unfair trial
 Missouri lawmaker: make Easter a federal holiday
 US abortions rose slightly in 2024
 Former nun details allegations of sexual and psychological abuse against Father Rupnik
 Pope visits Santa Maria Maggiore
 10 years after death, Cardinal Tucci recalled at memorial Mass
 Cardinal Fernández blesses statue of Mystical Rose, a year after letter on apparition
 ‘We are not afraid,’ Jerusalem Patriarch emphasizes in Palm Sunday message
 Brazilian priest, devoted to Mary and the Eucharist, angered Masonic lodge before his martyrdom
 Support policies that strengthen family life, Vatican diplomat urges
 President Trump issues Passover greetings

Released Monday, Apr. 14

 President Trump issues Holy Week statement
 Canadian bishops’ leader: confront Catholic politicians on life issues
 Architect Gaudi’s cause for beatification advances
 Papal nuncio in Ukraine: nothing left but turn to God
 Former USCCB official sues gay-dating app for career damage
 Nigerian priest fear rumors of bishop’s arrest
 Vatican tightens rules for Mass stipends
 On Palm Sunday, Pope greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square
 Papal preacher, in final Lenten sermon, reflects on Ascension
 Bring the Gospel to all, Pope tells students at Opus Dei-affiliated conference
 Become a Simon of Cyrene for one another, Pope writes in Palm Sunday homily
 Sudan is focus of renewed papal peace appeal
 Papal Angelus address: Trust in the Father, as Jesus did
 US bishops call for passage of Religious Workforce Protection Act

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Sat19 April
Lent

Holy Saturday — Easter Vigil

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On Holy Saturday, the Church waits at the Lord's tomb, in prayer and fasting, meditating on his Passion and Death and on his Descent into Hell and awaiting his Resurrection. The Church abstains from the Sacrifice of the Mass, with the sacred table left bare, until after the solemn Vigil, that is, the anticipation…

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