Stories for week of July 05, 2026

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Tuesday, Jul. 7

 4 attacks reported on Christians in West Bengal
 Vatican’s Archbishop Gallagher has ‘frank and illuminating’ meeting with Nigerian sultan
 Writer Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt reflects on meeting with Pope Leo
 New nuncio begins mission in Ecuador
 Pope begins 3-week stay in Castel Gandolfo
 Vatican releases preparatory document for extraordinary meeting on Amoris Laetitia

Released Monday, Jul. 6

 Vatican diplomat laments plight of Sudanese civilians
 Bishops, in pastoral letter, link America’s founding principles to Ukraine’s fight for freedom
 Baltimore archbishop, in July 4 homily, recalls colonial Catholics, Charles Carroll
 Report finds 83 instances of anti-Christian harassment in Israel between April and June
 Washington, DC cardinal reflects on patriotism
 Pope visits with US ambassador on July 4
 Pastor freed from prison in China, weeks after President Trump requested his release
 Papal praise for Columbanus Day, celebrated in honor of Irish saint
 Recalling 1st Mass in Florida and American saints, Pope praises USA’s Eucharistic heritage
 Pope pays tribute to newly beatified Vietnamese martyr, prays for Venezuelan earthquake victims
 The Lord carries the cross with us, Pope tells pilgrims

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Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today's Roman Martyrology commemorates: —St. Willibald, first bishop of Eichstadt (700-781), son of St. Richard, king of England, and brother of St. Walburga, virgin, who labored with St. Boniface in preaching the Gospel, and converted many nations to Christ. —St. Pantaenus of…

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