Stories for week of June 01, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Jun. 6

 Washington archdiocese plans heavy budget cuts
 Italian president meets with Pope
 Biblical scholar Brueggemann dead at 92
 Pope welcomes lay movements, different charisms
 Vatican prosecutor investigating publicist Chaouqui?
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ visits Cuba
 Neocatechumenal Way founder, leaders meet with Pontiff
 Speak about God and communicate Christian hope, Vatican cardinals tell leaders of lay movements
 Cardinal, Orthodox metropolitan address international conference on Council of Nicaea
 Cardinal Parolin tells Pope that Secretariat of State’s 246 employees are mosaic of faith and love
 USCCB welcomes Supreme Court decision on Catholic Charities
 Ukrainian Catholic leader, French ambassador discuss worsening humanitarian crisis
 Vatican newspaper recalls World Environment Day, warns of ‘catastrophic’ plastic pollution

Released Thursday, Jun. 5

 Greek, Egyptian foreign ministers huddle on status of ancient monastery
 German archbishop sued over ‘chicken dance’ performance in cathedral
 Another Nigerian priest kidnapped; worked in US diocese
 Syrian official dismisses report Father Dall’Oglio’s body was found
 Pope, in phone call, urges Putin to make peace
 Supreme Court backs Catholic Charities bid for tax exemption
 Bishop Zanchetta back in Argentina to serve prison sentence
 Pope meets with officers of Secretariat of State
 Pope meets with abuse commission
 Texas Supreme Court rules in favor of attorney general in effort to close Catholic migrant agency
 Rekindling hope is role of believers, Vatican cardinal says at interreligious gathering
 Caritas calls on EU nations to raise minimum income
 Pope Leo calls for defense of intrinsic dignity of every human person
 Ugandan-born priest named bishop of Louisiana diocese
 Prison inmates meet with Pontiff
 South Korea’s bishops welcome election of new president following martial law crisis
 Vatican newspaper warns of hunger in Haiti
 Global fertility crisis is ‘worse than you think,’ Ivy League economist warns

Released Wednesday, Jun. 4

 Canonization to be scheduled for Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
 Converted popemobile barred from Gaza
 Cardinal Parolin renews Vatican commitment to Ukraine peace efforts
 Pope apologizes for late audience, explains he is over-scheduled
 Largest Swiss women’s group drops ‘Catholic’ from its name
 US financier charged with Ponzi scheme bilking Church in Venezuela
 Body of kidnapped priest discovered in Syria?
 Bishop Martin delays ban on Traditional Latin Mass
 Pope’s message at audience: don’t put off response to God
 FBI memo on ‘radical traditional Catholics’ had wider circulation than acknowledged
 Papal video highlights devotion to the Sacred Heart
 HHS rescinds Biden administration’s guidance on emergency-room abortions
 Dutch Catholic chapel, cemetery severely damaged
 Situation in Gaza still ‘very bad,’ priest says
 Pope Leo would like to visit China, Hong Kong cardinal says
 Lay movement leaders meet at Vatican to discuss evangelization, formation
 Vatican delegation takes part in Anabaptist movement’s 500th anniversary commemoration
 39% of world’s permanent deacons serve in US
 Nearly 100 parishes lost to Russian occupation, Ukrainian Catholic leader says
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to devastating Nigerian floods

Released Tuesday, Jun. 3

 Nigerian bishop: priests are endangered species
 Australian archbishop: jump in adult converts is sign of revival
 Homage to Blessed Iuliu Hossu, Romanian bishop, victim of Communism
 Denver archbishop condemned firebombing, asks prayers
 Explosion at Uganda shrine on martyrs’ feast day
 Bishop Martin of Charlotte assessing future of priest accused of boundary violations, sexual abuse
 Abortions halted in Missouri after state supreme court ruling
 Cardinal Parolin, Dutch PM discuss religious freedom, international conflicts
 Endless violence: Missionary Benedictine Sisters close their facilities in Kerio Valley, Kenya
 Leo XIV joins Augustinian Prior General for birthday lunch
 See life as a journey of following Jesus with Mary, Pope says at conclusion of Marian month
 Take care of body, mind, heart, spirit, Pope tells professional cyclists
 Moscow Patriarchate condemns Ukrainian seizure of Russian Orthodox parish
 Ukrainian Catholic leader hails Pontiff’s peacefulness, comments on Ukraine
 Vatican newspaper analyzes continued failure of Gaza negotiations, calls for ‘more resolute’ US diplomacy
 Pope pays tribute to Poland’s Diocese of Płock
 Warning against Pelagianism, Pope Leo encourages bishops, laity to be ‘fishers of families’

Released Monday, Jun. 2

 New director for Vatican’s public-health agency
 Ukrainian Orthodox body stops short of full break with Moscow
 Citing violent attacks, Nigerian diocese closes 19 parishes
 Chicago festival to honor ‘native son’ Leo XIV
 As Italy’s bishops release latest abuse figures, survivor meets with Vatican commission
 Texas passes 3 bills promoting religion in public schools
 Pope, in Regina Caeli address, encourages family life
 15 religious sisters, martyred by Soviet army, beatified in Poland
 Marriage is a love that is ‘total, faithful, and fruitful,’ Pope Leo preaches at Jubilee of Families
 Pope Leo XIV ordains 11 new priests for Rome, urges transparent priesthood
 Evangelize in the home and the workplace, Pope writes in message for Polish diocese’s 100th anniversary
 Papal message for 100th anniversary of canonization of Saints John Eudes, John Mary Vianney, and Thérèse of Lisieux
 Papal encouragement for organizations that promote peace

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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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The weekday Masses towards the end of Lent are like a Passion Play. The Gospels, as one scene after the other, show the mounting hatred and growing tension. This is the “Abraham Mass,” telling of the inheritance received through Abraham. The Opening Prayer reminds us of our great inheritance received from Christ.…

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