Stories for week of July 27, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Aug. 1

 200 confessionals greet pilgrims for Jubilee of Youth
 North Carolina enacts law on transgender issues, pornography, and religion-related school opt-outs
 Report finds majority of US clergy, religious have strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary
 Redemptorist superior general recalls St. Alphonsus, calls for creative fidelity to his charism
 Priest attacked in Slovakia
 Remember Nuremberg trials, West Virginia bishop says in immigration statement
 5 years after devastating port blast, Lebanon lives with trauma and hope
 Congolese army is complicit in brutal violence, Caritas charges
 Miami archbishop presses for pastoral visitation at Alligator Alcatraz
 USCCB committee chairman welcomes President Trump’s comments on Gaza starvation
 August papal prayer intention: for mutual coexistence
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to Angola unrest; leading prelate appeals for calm

Released Thursday, Jul. 31

 Vatican, Italy to cooperate on agrivoltaic plant
 New director named for Vatican Observatory
 Immigration conflicts damage Los Angeles’ identity: Archbishop Gomez
 St. John Henry Newman to be declared a doctor of the Church
 Tehran’s cardinal assesses international situation
 US bishops back Kids Online Safety Act
 Jesuit spokesman contrasts Pope Francis’s closeness, actions of previous popes
 Holy See reiterates position on Israel-Hamas war, renews call for 2-state solution
 Italian bishops have given $49M to Holy Land projects
 Ecumenical Patriarch: Counter secular materialism through ‘global alliance of conscience’
 Papal prayer for Congo parish massacre victims, persecuted Christians
 As Jubilee of Youth begins, Pope, youth call for peace in the world

Released Wednesday, Jul. 30

 France, Australia, and UK no longer majority Christian
 Pontiff notes 50th anniversary of Helsinki Accords
 Use communications to heal, Pope urges audience
 Let us be ‘influenced’ and changed by the love of Christ, Cardinal Tagle preaches to influencers
 USCCB migration chairman welcomes bipartisan Dignity Act
 Talitha Kum leader calls for increased prayer, advocacy for human trafficking victims
 DR Congo priest recounts massacre at parish
 Vatican authorizes private devotion to alleged Italian Marian apparitions
 Pope meets with new French Catholics, stresses importance of Baptism
 Let Christ be the compass that guides your work, Pope tells Catholic universities
 Jerusalem’s Christian leaders condemn Israeli settlers’ attack on Palestinian Christian town
 Federal judge bars defunding of Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion activities
 Cardinal Parolin reiterates call for Palestinian state, decries hunger in Gaza

Released Tuesday, Jul. 29

 Cardinal Pell ordered probe of ‘potentially illegal’ bank transactions
 Quebec Catholic churches sold, put to new secular uses
 Build a culture of peace, Pope urges ‘digital missionaries’
 USCCB files brief in suit challenging Washington Confession law
 Holy See, Azerbaijan sign agreement on interreligious dialogue
 Flood Peru with the Good News of Christ, Pope asks young people
 Pope mourns Congo church attack
 Pontiff renews call for peace negotiations
 Economists worry about ‘depopulation bomb’
 Wounded Gaza Catholic, a Vatican newspaper contributor, writes about Israeli strike on parish
 Vatican News director: In the face of Gaza horror, we cannot look away
 New Holy Land custos makes solemn entrance into Cenacle, Holy Sepulchre, Bethlehem
 Vatican ‘foreign minister,’ in Mexico, notes Pope’s commitment to multilateralism, pays tribute to martyrs
 Use social media with faith and love, Cardinal Parolin tells Catholic influencers
 Russian Orthodox official meets with Pope Leo

Released Monday, Jul. 28

 Terrorist massacre at Congo Catholic church
 New assault on besieged Christian village on West Bank
 Protect environment, Pontiff urges French scouts
 Warsaw archdiocese seeks laicization of priest charged with brutal murder
 APSA reports healthy profits on Vatican investments
 Indiana church opens ‘sensory room’ for autistic parishioners
 Vatican spokesman renews call for recognition of Palestinian state
 Vatican newspaper criticizes Israeli claim of no famine in Gaza
 US bishops issue nationwide invitation to prayer to end taxpayer funding of abortion
 As jihadists advance, 30% of Niger’s Catholics have fled their villages
 Cardinal Sarah: ‘Do not profane France, for it is holy ground’
 Italian cardinal, Jewish leader issue joint peace appeal
 Gaza Catholic teen recounts Israeli strike on parish
 Pontiff offers formators, Xaverians suggestions for building their house on rock
 Pope upholds Vietnamese protomartyr as model for nation’s catechists
 Papal encouragement for Pax Christi USA in efforts to promote nonviolence, peace
 God the Father ‘never turns his back on us when we come to him,’ Pope tells pilgrims

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