Stories for week of January 26, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Feb. 1

 Background: World Day for Consecrated Life
 February papal prayer intention: for vocations to the priesthood and religious life

Released Friday, Jan. 31

 Large American dioceses failing to replace aging priests, study shows
 New Orleans archdiocese ousts Food Bank directors in finance dispute
 Another Italian priest excommunicated for denying Pope’s authority
 FBI nominee promise probe of ‘radical traditional Catholic’ memo
 US bishops’ leader promises dialogue with Trump on immigration
 Trump restores US membership in UN pro-life coalition
 Annulment reforms designed to speed process, not undermine marriage bond, Pope says
 Visa backlog threatens 1/4 of NY priests, op-ed warns
 Journalist at Jubilee event critiques Vatican’s PR, organizational efforts
 Missionary pleads for international action in DR Congo
 Chinese bishop, victim of Vatican-China deal, celebrates ordination anniversary under house arrest
 Pakistan’s blasphemy law has become ‘a trap and a business,’ attorneys warn
 USCCB committee chairman pays tribute to Catholic schools
 Be consolers of the broken, Pope tells bishops, seminarians of flood-stricken Valencia region

Released Thursday, Jan. 30

 Pope praises legacy of Dom Prosper Guéranger
 Pope mourns death of Albanian Orthodox prelate
 German bishops split on immigration legislation
 Papal condolences after DC plane crash
 More religious communities leaving Nicaragua
 Rebel Bishop Williamson dead at 84
 Peruvian cardinal protests ‘injustice’ of abuse charges
 False blasphemy charges promote blackmail in Pakistan
 Vatican, China still at odds on new bishops’ appointments?
 No complaints against pregnancy-help centers in Massachusetts
 Pope decries new bloodshed in Congo
 Vatican prefect contradicts earlier decision on holy days of obligation
 Cardinal Dolan lashes back at Vance remarks on immigration
 Papal message to Cuban conference links Christ’s teaching, universal call to fraternal love
 Vatican diplomat decries attacks on civilians in war
 Cardinal Gantin’s sainthood cause opens
 Watchdog group accuses Philippine bishops of abuse cover-up
 ‘We need peacemakers’: Manipur archbishop pleads for end to conflict
 Arson attacks on historic Spanish church
 USCCB committee chairman welcomes executive order protecting children from chemical, surgical mutilation

Released Wednesday, Jan. 29

 Pope, at general audience, reflects on annunciation to St. Joseph
 President Trump issues executive order protecting children from chemical, surgical mutilation
 Christians report ‘very pronounced fear’ in parts of Syria
 New document offers ‘balanced approach’ to AI, Vatican official says
 Mexican bishops pledge assistance to migrants, deportees
 New Eritrean Orthodox Patriarch enthroned
 As M23 rebels storm Goma, bishop asks, ‘Where to flee?’
 Stop the freeze on US foreign aid, CRS urges
 USCCB committee chairman welcomes removal of Cuba from terrorism sponsor list

Released Tuesday, Jan. 28

 ‘Impossible to imagine Iraq without Christians,’ Pope writes
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ explains ‘diplomacy of hope’
 Pope encourages Americans in social ministry
 Newly-proclaimed martyrs fought polygamy in Georgia
 Cameroon: bishop says devil would be better candidate than incumbent president
 New Vatican text explores challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
 President Biden welcomed into Masons
 Vatican releases Pope’s message for World Day of the Sick
 ‘Let the Lord out,’ Pope tells bishops’ communications officials
 Pope decries anti-Semitism, remembers Christian martyrs as he recalls Holocaust
 At Vatican meeting, slain French priest’s sister speaks of forgiveness
 In Lebanon, Catholic charity official rues destruction from Israeli invasion
 VP Vance spars with US bishops over immigration
 US bishops’ pro-life chairman welcomes Trump administration’s restoration of protections for preborn children

Released Monday, Jan. 27

 Vatican honors martyrs, candidates for canonization
 Retired Peruvian cardinal’s ministry restricted after abuse charge
 Judge Church communications by evangelical standards, Pope says
 Papal appeals for Sudan, Colombia
 Let us truly recognize Jesus, Pope tells pilgrims
 ‘We must become more familiar with reading the Scriptures’: papal homily for Sunday of the Word of God
 Pope concludes Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with call to hope
 Cardinal Gracias retires; coadjutor succeeds him as archbishop of Mumbai
 ‘Do not be afraid of diversity’: papal advice to French seminary rectors
 Pope ‘eager’ to help Haiti amid Trump deportation plans, interim leader says
 Pope Francis expresses solidarity with ‘Panama and our Canal,’ nation’s president says
 Papal Jubilee audience with media workers: freedom for journalists is freedom for all
 Portuguese foreign minister meets with Pontiff

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Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch (50-107), who was one of the great bishops of the early Church. He was the successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Antioch. He was condemned to death by wild beasts during the Emperor Trajan's persecution. On his way to Rome, he wrote seven…

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