Stories for week of August 16, 2026

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Tuesday, Aug. 18

 Parish vandalized in Tel Aviv
 Cardinal Parolin pays tribute to St. Agatha
 Cardinal Pizzaballa visits beleaguered Palestinian Christian village
 Vatican News emphasizes longstanding papal support for 2-state solution
 Pope offers prayers, condolences for Indonesian earthquake victims

Released Monday, Aug. 17

 Germany sees increase in adult baptisms amid overall baptism decline
 San Antonio priest found guilty of schism, excommunicated, laicized
 160,000 Vietnamese faithful take part in Marian pilgrimage
 Russian missile strike damages Ukrainian Catholic cathedral
 Florida bishops ask governor to stay execution
 Zambia’s bishops decry suspension of vote counting in presidential election
 Vandals damage AC at San Antonio parish
 Dutch bishop, in open letter to Pope, argues against synodality
 Analysts link persecution of Church in Nicaragua to regime’s succession strategy
 Finnish MP, convicted for remarks on homosexuality, files appeal to European court
 Ukrainian Catholic leader hails 20th-century nationalist leader as remains repatriated
 Priest performs exorcism at ranch formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein
 Europe’s tallest statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is blessed in Poland
 Severe earthquake strikes Flores, the ‘promised land for vocations’

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Tue18 August
Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today in the Roman Martyrology is the commemoration of St. Agapitus (d. 259), a martyr of Palestrina, not far from Rome. His cult, which is very ancient, was particularly popular in the eternal city where Felix III (492) caused a church to be built in his honor. Ancient inscriptions show clearly…

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