Stories for week of May 03, 2026

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, May. 7

 Abortion kills babies and wounds women, Irish bishop preaches
 Pope sends message to Gaza parish
 Times recounts Pope’s call to Chicago bank’s customer service
 Cardinal Parolin sees ‘consonance of thought’ between Benedict XVI, future Pope Leo
 Report: Chinese bishops, other clergy gather to study ‘Xi Jinping thought’
 Swiss president holds ‘very inspiring’ meeting with Pontiff
 Vandalism at parish in Oakland
 Pope thanks Swiss Guard for service, as 28 new members sworn in
 Lebanese priests overjoyed by a surprise video call from Pope Leo
 Program announced for Pope’s apostolic journey to Spain

Released Wednesday, May. 6

 Pope, in audience on Vatican II, reflects on the Church on pilgrimage to Heaven
 USCCB to FDA: Mothers deserve better than telehealth mifepristone
 Stockholm diocese urges Catholic voters to consider candidates’ position on abortion, euthanasia
 Vicariate for Hebrew-speaking Catholics marks 70th anniversary
 Egyptian court fails to grant Easter holiday
 Legionaries’ new leader says he wishes to ‘move this congregation forward’
 Synod report on doctrinal issues includes testimonies of men in same-sex marriages
 President Trump again assails Pope Leo; Pontiff responds that criticism should be truthful
 Vatican newspaper shines spotlight on Gaza’s ‘prolonged agony’

Released Tuesday, May. 5

 Iceland’s president meets with Pontiff
 Transalpine Redemptorists denounce ‘post-Vatican II claimants to the papacy’
 Dubai’s Christian leaders pray for peace, thank civil authorities
 DDF publishes 2024 criticism of German bishops’ guide for blessing irregular unions
 Hindu mob disrupts Mass in India; 4 Catholics arrested
 Melkite bishops denounce Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
 Belarus regime denies permission for 3 more priests to remain
 Canadian priest offered euthanasia twice while recovering from hip fracture
 Bishop Gracida, outspoken emeritus of Corpus Christi, dies at 102
 Supreme Court allows 1-week resumption of mail delivery of abortion pill

Released Monday, May. 4

 Pope encourages Catholic Charities USA to love the poor with Christ’s love
 2 immigrants named US bishops; 1 was Bishop Strickland’s vicar general
 Former federal prosecutor: ‘I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit’
 Bishop Campbell, author of ‘DEI means God,’ retires
 Employees at Padre Pio’s hospital begin hunger strike
 Moscow archbishop resigns at 65
 Vatican publishes writings of future Pope Leo, when he was Augustinian prior general
 Vatican newspaper decries Israeli attack on Catholic school building in Lebanon

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Thu7 May
Easter

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter

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Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates the feast of recently-canonized Italian educator Saint Rosa Venerini (1656-1728), who founded Catholic schools for girls and young women during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. St. Rosa (also known as St. Rose) was declared a saint in 2006 by Pope…

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