Stories for week of May 24, 2026

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Wednesday, May. 27

 School abuse scandal rocks Paris
 USCCB committee chairman: Increase funding for EPA, Department of the Interior
 Prelate discusses restrictions on Church under Brunei’s Islamic monarchy
 Scotland abortion numbers highest on record

Released Tuesday, May. 26

 SSPX announces names of priests who will be ordained bishops
 Man vandalizes, sets fire at Missouri Catholic school
 Iranian convert to Catholicism sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison
 Supreme Court declines to intervene in Peter’s Pence lawsuit
 Leading Italian prelate sees new encyclical as ‘beacon of light’
 VP Vance calls Pope Leo’s AI warnings ‘profound’
 ‘Ebola now strikes fear,’ Vatican newspaper warns
 Border bishops have ‘grave concerns’ about $72B immigration enforcement package
 Pope calls for aid for Gaza
 Bishop Barron warns against open borders, ‘demonization’ of Trump administration
 5 killed, several abducted in new attacks on Nigerian Catholics
 Prelate discusses Church’s response to ethnic violence in Manipur
 Vatican diplomat calls for international cooperation to address health disparities
 USCCB president welcomes new encyclical, says ‘no technology can replace a child of God’
 Amid mass protests, Bolivian bishops issue urgent plea for dialogue
 Pope, in encyclical, affirms right of self-defense, says just war theory outdated
 Leading Dominican prelate meets with Pontiff
 Philippine cardinal rips politician’s defense of drug war
 Kansas City priest arrested on suspicion of stealing $160,000 from parish
 Vatican spokesman: New encyclical challenges us to remain human in an age of algorithms

Released Monday, May. 25

 Pope Leo breaks new ground with encyclical on AI [News/Analysis]
 Coptic Orthodox Church resumes dialogue following Pope Leo’s assurances on ‘non-blessing of same-sex couples’
 Addressing EU lawmakers, Pope laments abortion, says family is founded on marriage between a man and a woman
 ‘Live Christian charity,’ Pope tells Barcelona business leaders
 Albania’s president meets with Pontiff
 In Peru, Mass of reparation offered for suppressed lay movement’s victims
 Pope Leo asks pardon for Holy See’s complicity in slavery
 Pope commemorates 100th anniversary of crowning of Marian image in Toledo, Spain
 Pope Leo issues 1st encyclical, urges safeguarding of human person in AI era
 Pope asks Mary, Help of Christians, to pray for Church in China, Christians of the Middle East
 The Holy Spirit opens doors, Pope tells pilgrims on Pentecost
 The Spirit of the Risen Christ is the Spirit of peace, mission, and truth, Pope preaches on Pentecost Sunday

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Wed27 May
Ordinary Time

Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop; Ember Wednesday

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 605), who was born in Rome and died in Canterbury, England, in 604. When Pope Gregory I heard that the pagans of Britain were disposed to accept the Catholic Faith, he sent the prior of St. Andrew, Augustine, and forty of his Benedictine…

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