Stories for week of September 14, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, Sep. 18

 Federal court permits PA parochial school students to compete in interscholastic athletics
 Oakland diocese seeks to pull plug on bankruptcy
 USCCB publishes guide to Islamophobia
 Disabled Iraqi Christian killed in France while speaking about his faith online
 At least 64 dead in Islamist attack on Catholic parish in DR Congo
 Nepal’s Catholic leader welcomes new government
 Vatican diplomat pushes back against UN document linking women’s development, abortion
 Armenian Patriarch meets with Pope Leo, invites him to visit nation

Released Wednesday, Sep. 17

 Pope renews peace plea as Israel moves into Gaza City
 Papal reflections on Holy Saturday at weekly audience
 Pope sees ‘religious synergy’ in inter-faith cooperation
 Exodus continues among Austrian Catholics
 China tightly restricts online religious activities
 Cardinal Grech pushes for acceptance of synodality
 Austrian nuns defy orders, re-occupy convent
 House of Lords leaning against assisted-suicide in UK
 Pope calls Gaza parish as Israel launches major ground offensive
 In suffering, ‘build a bridge towards heaven,’ Pope says at Jubilee of Consolation
 Vatican City coin wins ‘best gold coin’ prize
 Vatican newspaper ponders ‘America against itself’
 Nuncio to Spain appointed amid tension between government, bishops
 Pope encourages Latin American prelates to promote Church’s prophetic, missionary renewal
 The religious vocation is ‘foremost an adventure of love,’ Pope tells Augustinians
 Vatican releases trailer to ‘Leo from Chicago’
 Pontiff receives birthday greetings from leaders, Catholics worldwide
 Ukrainian Catholic leader condemns Russian incursion into Polish airspace
 Emphasizing bishops, Pope notes 60th anniversary of Synod of Bishops

Released Tuesday, Sep. 16

 Duchess of Kent receives first Catholic royal funeral in UK since 1685
 San Diego deacon announces self-deportation during Mass
 Benin: terrorists threaten work of the Church, bishop says
 Orthodox Patriarch visits White House
 Vatican confirms Pope’s prayers for Charlie Kirk, family
 Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria
 USCCB heightens mental health engagement
 Holy See, Vietnam express satisfaction at progress of relations
 Papal telegram pays tribute to Carmelite martyrs of Compiègne
 Papal rescript encourages employment of persons with disabilities in the Curia
 Raleigh is proportionally the nation’s most conversion-rich diocese
 Pope encourages Umbrian pilgrims to be ‘missionaries of love and peace’
 Pope Leo calls for ‘theology of wisdom,’ cites examples of Augustine, Aquinas, Rosmini
 Holy Land bishops open theological institute in Nazareth
 Vatican diplomat condemns child labor, use of children as soldiers
 Vatican newspaper welcomes Sudan diplomacy of Trump administration, Arab nations

Released Monday, Sep. 15

 Italian cardinal: expecting papal decision on Latin Mass
 Cardinal Sarah speaks on tradition, liturgy, synodality
 Brazilian prelate decries ‘unacceptable’ US tariffs
 Cardinal Bagnasco calls for relaxing ban on Traditional Latin Mass
 Jerusalem patriarchate forgives tuition debts for Catholic schools
 Vatican pacts with Azerbaijan draw Armenian criticism
 New US ambassador meets with Pontiff
 Pope speaks on Ukraine, synodality, leadership in interview
 US Catholics favorable toward Pope Leo, but know little about him
 Pope hails Lampedusa’s hospitality to migrants, calls for ‘culture of reconcilation’
 Cardinal Tagle: We have lost the sense of creation as God’s gift
 Cardinal Parolin hopes for ‘new perspective on a new world’
 Be builders of bridges, Pope says during conversation with new bishops
 USCCB removes Bishop Campbell’s ‘DEI means God’ essay from website
 Dominican prime minister, Pontiff discuss climate change
 Moldova’s president, Pontiff discuss Ukraine
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to widespread child malnutrition in Afghanistan
 God transformed the Cross into an instrument of life, Pope tells pilgrims
 Pope Leo, other Christian leaders pay tribute to 21st-century martyrs

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