Stories for week of March 02, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Mar. 7

 White House arranges Ash Wednesday Mass for Catholic staff
 New Jersey court allows statewide probe of clerical abuse
 Chinese bishop arrested for celebrating Jubilee Mass
 New NIH director promises end to fetal-tissue research
 Priests of Rome asked to donate to housing program
 Kenyan bishop leery of politicians’ gifts to churches
 Vatican message for Ramadan invites Muslims to ‘walk side-by-side’
 Rabbi meets with Cardinal Parolin, calls on Vatican to describe Israel as Jews’ ‘eternal homeland’
 Vatican spokesman decries EU military aid for Ukraine
 Over 2,300 Polish nuns helped save Jews during Holocaust
 25,000 pilgrims gather for Jubilee of Volunteers
 Ukrainian Catholic leader: ‘No peace treaty can be signed without truth and justice’
 Nigerian bishops lament state government orders to close Christian schools during Ramadan
 Donate to Catholic Relief Services to help the world’s poor, USCCB committee chairman writes
 President Trump issues Ramadan message

Released Thursday, Mar. 6

 Pope issues audio message of thanks for prayers
 Parish center hit in Myanmar bombing raid
 Foreign-born nuns face problems as US visa program expires
 Nigeria most dangerous country for Christians
 Hospitalized Pope still not delegating decisions, journalist notes
 Immigrants form growing proportion of US Catholics
 Baltimore archdiocese lowering age for confirmation
 Cardinal Roche: Traditionalists are ‘quite clamorous’ small minority
 Cardinal Fernandez: weigh ‘exceptional circumstances’ for sex-change treatment
 Mongolian president praised Pope’s peace efforts
 Pope, in video, encourages forgiveness to heal family wounds
 Pope’s message to Church in Brazil links conversion, integral ecology
 Fragility and hope: papal homily for Ash Wednesday Mass
 Federal court restores funding to institutions that offer ‘gender-affirming care’
 Cambodian prelate opposes Thai border wall

Released Wednesday, Mar. 5

 Trump issues Ash Wednesday message
 Papal text concludes weekly series on childhood of Jesus
 Nigerian priest killed by kidnappers
 Priest convicted of abuse now faces deportation
 Vatican repeats caution on visions of Maria Valtorta
 20 years after her murder, slain US missionary’s legacy endures in Brazil
 Vatican newspaper editor lauds The Brutalist
 Situation in West Bank has become worse since Gaza ceasefire, Jerusalem Patriarch says
 Priest, seminarian kidnapped in Nigeria
 Catholic Relief Services: Urge Congress to reverse Trump administration’s foreign-aid termination
 Senate Democrats block bill to prevent boys from competing in girls’ sports
 Archbishop Paglia: Pope’s convalescence is reminder everyone deserves proper care
 Protect future generations from nuclear warfare, Vatican diplomat pleads

Released Tuesday, Mar. 4

 San Antonio archbishop: no conscientious objection on measles vaccine
 European bishops express solidarity with Ukraine
 Vatican Lenten Retreat to proceed without Pontiff
 Cardinal Fernández, DDF prefect, explains the senses in which man’s dignity is infinite
 Only a united global family can fix crises, Archbishop Paglia says
 Report: Father Rupnik, other ex-Jesuits are living in Benedictine convent of nuns
 Fertility rate rises slightly in South Korea
 Blessed Sacrament, monstrance stolen from church in Bangalore
 USCCB president issues message of solidarity with Ukraine

Released Monday, Mar. 3

 Build new order to address today’s ‘polycrisis,’ Pope urges
 Theme, date chosen for 111th World Day of Migrants
 Lithuanian president meets Vatican Secretary of State
 British bishop raps foreign-aid cuts, arms spending
 Hispanics in US less likely to be Catholics
 Pope stable, treatment continues [Thursday PM update]
 Canadian house speaker meets with leading Ukrainian Catholic bishops, affirms support
 NYPD chaplain arrested for patronizing prostitute, denies charges
 Iowa enacts law removing ‘gender identity’ as protected class
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ prods UN body on human rights
 Zimbabwe’s bishops welcome abolition of death penalty
 USCCB committee chairman, other Catholic leaders urge Congress to protect Medicaid
 Fátima statue to visit Rome for Jubilee of Marian Spirituality
 Pope reflects on frailty, thanks faithful for prayers, prays for peace
 Sight and taste: papal Angelus reflection on Gospel reading
 Cardinal De Donatis to take Pope’s place at Ash Wednesday procession, Mass

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