Stories for week of June 29, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jul. 4

 Video released for July papal prayer intention
 USCCB president condemns ‘devastating effects’ of One Big Beautiful Bill Act
 Pope Leo to resume custom of public celebration of Mass on feast of the Assumption
 Vatican diplomat deplores violence against women, says differences between men and women must be recognized
 Cardinal Fernández: Rupnik judges selected; excommunications are ‘often’ declared and lifted
 Pope welcomes Taiwan’s new ambassador
 Poland’s President Duda meets with Pontiff
 Jerusalem Christians mourn victims of attack on Syrian church
 Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarchy discusses pastoral care of families in wartime
 Vatican officials present new Mass formulary: Mass for the Care of Creation
 600 children meet with Pope Leo
 ‘Europe suffocates’: Vatican newspaper laments heat wave

Released Thursday, Jul. 3

 Debate over traditional Latin Mass heats up after apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine Pope Francis
 USCCB, in court filing, backs counselor challenging Colorado law on transgender counseling
 Synod study group reports postponed until December; implementation phase document to be released July 7
 Address the trafficking of migrant domestic workers, Vatican diplomat urges
 Vatican announces ‘Manifesto of Young Christians of Europe’
 Turkey’s first lady meets with Pope, calls for ‘more assertive’ Christian support for Gaza ceasefire
 Papal condolences following death of Cardinal Dri, who spent 7 hours daily in confessional
 Italian PM Meloni meets with Pontiff
 Franciscan official rues plight of children in the Holy Land
 Pope issues ‘Seeds of Peace and Hope,’ message for World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
 Papal encouragement for Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarchy in serving Christ in the wounded, distressed

Released Wednesday, Jul. 2

 Leading African, Asian, Latin American prelates issue joint call for climate justice
 Ecumenical Patriarch hails Pope Leo’s Augustinian commitment to Christian unity
 Argentine Cardinal Dri dies at 98
 Syriac Catholic hierarchy meets with Pope
 Where ‘human blood is shed too easily,’ the Precious Blood offers hope, Holy Land custos preaches
 Vatican newspaper highlights overcrowding, suicides in Italian prisons
 USCCB, in action alerts, urges opposition to environmental, SNAP, Medicaid budget cuts
 Vatican cardinal warns of ‘danger of extinction’ of Christianity in the Middle East
 Amid Cameroon conflict, situation improves for civilians—but torture continues, prelate says
 Bishop decries renewed violence in South Sudan, calls for peace

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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Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Priest; Opt Mem of St. Elizabeth of Portugal (USA)

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria (1502-1539), who was the founder of the Clerks Regular of St. Paul, later called the Barnabites from the name of their principal church in Rome. He also founded a congregation of nuns, the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul. St. Anthony was a great…

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