Stories for week of September 28, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Oct. 3

 Recognize the elderly as a gift, Pope urges
 Senator Durbin ‘overwhelmed’ by Pope’s comments
 Pontiff thanks Swiss Guard for service
 Woman chosen as Archbishop of Canterbury
 FDA approves new abortion pill
 Vermont diocese struggles to pay bankruptcy legal bills
 South Sudan bishop pleads for peace, expresses closeness to faithful as fighting resumes
 USCCB committee chairman calls for ardent prayer following President Trump’s Gaza peace plan
 St. Francis of Assisi’s feast day restored as national holiday in Italy
 Vatican foreign minister laments youth suicide rate, deplores assisted suicide
 Pilgrims from 100 countries expected at Jubilees of Missions, Migrants
 Background: World Day of Migrants and Refugees
 AI cannot substitute for personal closeness, Pope reminds Latin American physicians
 Pope’s moral authority on migration is crucial in polarized world, UN migration leader says
 Look to St. Paul amid our ‘cultural and ecclesial winter,’ Pope tells Daughters of St. Paul

Released Thursday, Oct. 2

 Pope Leo’s first major document expected next week
 Buffalo diocese submits bankruptcy reorganization plan
 Anglican commission will announce nominee to be Archbishop of Canterbury on October 3
 Israel forces threaten Catholic community in Gaza
 Bishop Burbidge welcomes Durbin’s choice to decline award
 Pope raps climate skepticism
 Pope laments ‘attitude of indifference’ on migration crisis
 See Christ in your political opponents and examine your hearts, USCCB president urges
 Prelate welcomes papal appeal for Madagascar, says bishops wish to mediate
 Vatican foreign minister emphasizes family’s irreplaceable role in education
 Bishops discuss how to revitalize the EU
 New abuse commission president emphasizes high stakes
 Pontiff invited to visit Catalonia in 2026
 May religions be bridges, not walls, Pope prays in video
 Pope calls for daily Rosary in October for peace
 Italian bishops, Latin Patriarch announce plans to build Catholic hospital in Gaza
 Pope Leo encourages Hamas to accept President Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Released Wednesday, Oct. 1

 Pope sees Resurrection as quiet triumph of love
 Pope decries bloodshed in Madagascar
 Durbin declines Chicago archdiocesan award
 Jerusalem Christian group: Israeli policies, not Palestinian Authority, are causing Christians to leave
 Myanmar’s faithful are resilient in the face of evil, prelate says
 USCCB calls on FTC to end marketing of ‘gender affirming care’
 ‘Profit at all costs’ is ‘completely unsustainable,’ Vatican diplomat says
 Vatican congress considers pastoral care of the elderly
 New prior general takes stock of Augustinian order
 Vatican hosts ‘raising hope’ climate conference
 Public papal Masses announced for November, December, and January
 Vatican foreign minister expresses ‘profound concern’ about extensive rearmament
 October papal prayer intention: for collaboration between different religious traditions

Released Tuesday, Sep. 30

 Pope stays neutral on Durbin-award controversy
 Clinical abortions down in US in early 2025
 Trump issues statement for feast of St. Michael the Archangel
 NY Supreme Court tosses parishioners’ lawsuit against Buffalo diocese
 Accused French priest permitted to minister in Morocco, victims charge
 USCCB rues persecution of Christians in Nigeria, DR Congo
 Bishop discusses continued jihadist violence in Mozambique
 Vatican foreign minister urges nuclear powers to ratify Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
 Vatican cardinal hails late Romanian cardinal’s fidelity amid Communist persecution
 Pope receives Guinea-Bissau’s president
 Bahrain’s crown prince meets with Pontiff
 ‘Preserving human voices and faces’ is theme of next World Communications Day
 Pope Leo: In ‘healthy secularism,’ religion is distinct but not separate from political sphere

Released Monday, Sep. 29

 Chicago archdiocese cancels board meetings amid furor over Durbin award
 Archbishop Naumann chides Cardinal Cupich for Durbin award
 Cardinal McElroy rips Trump immigration crackdown
 Use God’s gifts responsibly, Pope tells audience
 Peruvian abuse victim: lawyer manipulated victims to accuse Pope
 TLM celebrated in St. Peter’s basilica
 Hong Kong’s Cardinal Chow questioned for praising religious freedom in China
 Bishop Zanchetta released on parole
 Papal encouragement for Focolare movement
 Auto magnate meets with Pontiff, gives him Ferrari steering wheel
 Holy Land’s Christian leaders decry tax threat to Armenian church property
 Vatican newspaper highlights Russian incursion into Alaskan air defense zone
 Pope devotes jubilee audience to St. Ambrose and intuition
 Ruthenian bishop, a martyr of Communism, beatified in Ukrainie
 The Catechism protects us from individualism and discord, Pope tells catechists
 Papal prayer for victims of Typhoon Ragasa
 Date set for proclamation of St. John Henry Newman as doctor of the Church

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Wed8 October
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Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

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The commemorations in today's Roman Martyrology include: —St. Pelagia, distinguished as Pelagia of Antioch, Pelagia the Penitent, and Pelagia the Harlot, was a Christian saint and hermit in the 4th or 5th century. She was a public sinner of Antioch in Syria, and repented of her evil life.…

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