Stories for week of September 07, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Sep. 12

 Spanish bishop threatens resignation in dispute over control of shrine
 Fraternity means rejecting isolation of self-interest, Pope says
 France in 2024: more deaths than births
 Vatican explains deal with China on new diocese
 Pope meets new leader of commission on abuse
 Cardinal Fernandez tells new bishops: synodality often misunderstood
 Pontifical academy hosts conference on ecology and peace
 Eastern Catholic prelates gather in Vienna, pray for Ukraine; Cardinal Schönborn lauds Eastern liturgy
 US-Mexico border bishops call for humanitarian corridors for refugees
 Nigerian jihadists attack Benin village, ‘constantly threaten’ Catholics, bishop says
 Leading African, Asian, Latin American cardinals call for ‘economic degrowth’ to avert climate catastrophe
 Posthumous book by Pope Francis pays tribute to St. Francis of Assisi; Pope Leo writes letter
 Pope encourages Carmelites to be rooted in silent prayer, mutual care
 Papal message: Seek God, the ‘measure without measure’
 ‘DEI means God,’ US bishop writes in critique of Trump administration
 Vatican newspaper warns that Russian, Israeli incursions are bringing world to the abyss

Released Thursday, Sep. 11

 Cardinal Parolin: ‘we are against all types of violence’
 Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople explains ‘primacy of service’
 Seek what is beyond measure, Pope urges, quoting St. Augustine
 Cardinal Hollerich: Church needs broader view of sexual morality
 Bishop’s role is to serve the people, Pope emphasizes
 Federal court: Vermont Christian school must be allowed to compete in interscholastic sports
 Iraqi archbishop: A decade after the Islamic State, we lift high the cross
 Holy Land prelate reiterates call for 2-state solution
 US bishops announce Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation
 L’Osservatore Romano analysis: media, politicians overemphasize divisions in American society
 Cardinal launches Earth Partner exhibit for Borgo Laudato Si’
 Cardinal Parolin rues ‘earthquakes’ of depopulation, lack of vocations
 Ukrainian Catholic leader welcomes efforts of ‘coalition of the willing’
 Holy Land bishops, nuncio huddle to discuss looming Jerusalem property tax
 ‘Bombs on negotiations’: Vatican newspaper condemns Israeli attack in Qatar

Released Wednesday, Sep. 10

 Pope renews prayers for peace
 American priest named worldwide Augustinian leader
 Pope creates new Chinese diocese
 Heed Christ’s last cry from the Cross, Pope tells audience
 School’s transgender bathroom policy did not violate religious-freedom rights, federal court rules
 Care for creation, bishop urges following landslide in Sudan
 USCCB, CRS publish Catholic vision for humanitarian, development assistance
 In Myanmar, ‘no place is safe,’ nun says
 ‘There can be no true peace without climate justice,’ Catholic organizations emphasize
 Israeli military orders all Gaza City residents to evacuate; Pope contacts parish
 Image of Our Lady of Luján blessed in Vatican Gardens
 Vatican cardinal tells Bangladesh to uphold rule of law, equality
 Pope calls for prayer following Israeli attack in Qatar
 Vatican newspaper laments monsoons, climate change in Pakistan

Released Tuesday, Sep. 9

 Orthodox protest Egypt’s plans for development on Mt. Sinai
 Traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s approved for Jubilee pilgrimage
 New Orleans archdiocese accepts $230-million bankruptcy settlement
 Pope returns to Castel Gandolfo for a day’s break
 Pope likens inter-religious dialogue to cultivating a garden of peace
 Pakistani Catholic pilgrim killed by Muslim mob
 Congo priest recovering after being shot by robbers
 Papal condolences follow death of Roman mayor’s mother
 Society of Divine Word marks 150th anniversary
 Vatican cardinal hails martyr of Communism as ‘conscience of Romanians’
 The Virgin Mary has long been called the Mediatrix of graces, Leo XIV writes in letter
 Pope to preside at ecumenical prayer service for 21st-century martyrs
 Bishop Oster, critic of German Synodal Way, has ‘encouraging’ audience with Pope Leo
 Pope Leo receives presidents of Catholic Leadership Institute, Legatus
 Pontiff, Cardinal Grech discuss synod’s implementation phase
 Ukrainian Catholic leader calls for continued Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation

Released Monday, Sep. 8

 LGBTQ pilgrimage brings controversy to Vatican basilica
 Archbishop Broglio calls for prayer for peace, condemns expansion of Israeli settlements
 Vatican diplomat rues resurgence of aggressive nuclear rhetoric
 EWTN News president meets with Pontiff
 Leo XIV encourages Mediterranean youth to cultivate peace, witness to Christ
 Pontiff dedicates Laudato Si’ Village
 ‘The Church needs Mariology,’ Pope tells pontifical academy
 Dig for the Cross as St. Helena did, Pope Leo tells pilgrims at jubilee audience
 Pope Leo canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati, Carlo Acutis
 ‘Listen to the voice of conscience,’ Pope says in new peace appeal to world leaders
 Martyrs of Soviet Communism beatified in Estonia, Hungary

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