Stories for week of April 26, 2026

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, Apr. 30

 Pope Leo upholds St. Catherine of Siena as model for young people and the sick
 Pope laments Colombia violence, recalls Poland’s clergy martyrs of World War II
 Tulsa deacon charged with bank fraud
 Chernobyl cleanup crew members, grieving parents meet with Pontiff
 Westminster archbishop: Pope, Anglican primate well aware of differences

Released Wednesday, Apr. 29

 Pope, at general audience, reviews apostolic journey to Africa
 Archbishop Gänswein offers fresh account of Benedict and Francis years
 Jerusalem cardinal emphasizes centrality of liturgy, prayer amid war
 Number of Catholic weddings in Ireland falls by half in 10 years
 Cardinal McElroy sees 3 ‘major distortions of Catholic teaching on war and peace’
 Ghana’s leading prelate says the Church ‘cannot remain silent in the face of moral and social concerns’
 USCCB, Catholic organizations weigh in on agriculture appropriations bill
 Azerbaijan’s government demolishes Armenian cathedral
 Pontifical Mission Societies warn of ‘silent massacre’ of humanitarian workers
 Vatican diplomat: Don’t delegate scientific decisions to AI
 EU bishops issue peace plea, draw attention to plight of Christians in Northern Cyprus
 Vatican newspaper sounds alarm about jihadist advances in the Sahel
 500,000 children at risk of death in Somalia, L’Osservatore Romano warns

Released Tuesday, Apr. 28

 Pontiff grants ecclesiastical communion to new Chaldean Patriarch
 5 beatification causes advance, including religious sister who died in Missouri
 New Vatican document: ‘Integral Ecology in the Life of the Family’
 2 priests ordained in Laos, a nation with 20 priests
 Pope calls on Vatican diplomats to be servants of peace, truth, and justice
 Pope Leo, at blessing of heart center, recalls Pope Francis’s encyclical on the Sacred Heart
 Dog owners who shared the Eucharist with their pets are not excommunicated, Swiss bishop rules
 In North Carolina, Catholic Charities official charged with embezzlement, money laundering
 Vatican official comments on SSPX, Order of Malta; declines comment on Charlotte priests’ dubia
 In Germany, Church leaders defend blessing guidelines
 Bishops condemn violence after White House press dinner shooting
 California bishop’s role at Anglican consecration prompts questions
 South Sudanese bishop renews call for answers on missing priest, driver

Released Monday, Apr. 27

 Pope receives Anglican primate, calls for removal of stumbling blocks to Christian unity
 Pope names successor to 59-year-old Central African cardinal—reportedly after investigation by Cardinal Sarah
 Italian soldiers replace crucifix destroyed by Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon
 Cardinal Koch: The witness of martyrs is essential to the Church’s life
 Vatican newspaper warns of global food crisis
 Pope is committed to European unity, European Parliament ex-president says following audience
 Vatican releases schedule for 4 of Pontiff’s upcoming visits to Italian cities
 ‘Truth is the goal and personal relationship the path to achieving it,’ Pope tells Italian religion teachers

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Thu30 April
Easter

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Pius V, Pope and Religious

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Pius V (1504-1572). He joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by…

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