Stories for week of May 24, 2026

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, May. 30

 German church desecrated
 Ontario won’t force Catholic schools to fly pride flag
 Welcoming the persecuted as refugees makes America great, USCCB committee chairman says
 The family is formed by a man and a woman, Pope says in message to symposium
 Flourishing traditional Marian Franciscan community in UK to be dissolved
 Bishop reports unprecedented number of converts in Estonia
 New Chaldean Patriarch enthroned; vows to preserve Church’s liturgical traditions
 Nigerian priest found guilty of abusing adult women in Texas
 Washington Nationals official fired after video that implied discrimination against Catholic pitcher
 ‘Queer voices were strong’ at Katholikentag, group says
 Outgoing US religious freedom commissioner highlights worsening global crisis
 Pope links young people’s mental health challenges to loss of interior life, sense of meaning
 Lauding charismatic renewal, Pope compares baptism in the Spirit to St. Augustine’s experience
 Pope says polarization, war recall St. Augustine’s City of Man
 Pope to lead international Rosary for peace this evening

Released Friday, May. 29

 Documents on Cambodian martyrs presented to Vatican
 Canada’s Prime Minister Carney, Pope Leo discuss AI, peace
 Italian bishop issues pastoral letter on evangelization of Muslims
 Pope allows bishops, with Vatican authorization, to dismiss superiors of autonomous monasteries
 Pope Leo to visit San Marino in August
 Renewable energy agreement between Holy See, Italy enters into force
 Focus on spreading the Gospel, Pope tells Italian bishops
 Pope emphasizes centrality of evangelization, warns against watering down the faith

Released Thursday, May. 28

 Ghana welcomes papal apology for slavery
 Vatican foundation hosts conference on Catholic social thought
 Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space established inside Vietnamese cathedral
 Pope establishes commission to supervise hospital founded by Padre Pio
 Bishop, other Indonesian Catholics give Muslims sacrificial animals for festival
 Pontiff receives Spanish prime minister
 Niger’s bishops urge Christians, Muslims to deepen peace, solidarity at Eid al-Adha
 Pope Leo calls on Polish Catholics to protect life from conception to natural death
 Abducted Nigerian parishioners freed after 3 months in captivity
 Nobel laureate Bialiatski meets with Pope, discusses human rights abuses in Belarus

Released Wednesday, May. 27

 Pope Leo issues new appeal for peace in Ukraine
 Pope, in audience on Vatican II, reflects on liturgical reform
 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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