Stories for week of October 26, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Nov. 1

 November papal prayer intention: for the prevention of suicide

Released Friday, Oct. 31

 Belarus: jailed priest reportedly pressed to implicate papal nuncio
 Abuse victims approve New Orleans settlement
 Croatian president meets with Pontiff
 Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia is now the world’s tallest church
 Pope Leo ‘not in a hurry’ to change Church discipline in the Amazon, bishop says
 Major ecumenical gathering concludes with ‘Call to All Christians’
 USCCB president calls for prayer, support for Caribbean hurricane victims
 Catholic-Assyrian Church dialogue focuses on liturgy
 Vatican diplomat rues withdrawals from land mine treaty
 Morocco cardinal: ‘We must abandon the false paradigm of true religion, false religion’
 Bishop Adoukonou, last Ratzinger student and former Vatican official, dies at 83
 EU’s ‘migration czar’ meets with Pope, speaks of need to combat illegal immigration
 Salesforce signs pontifical academy’s ‘Rome Call for AI Ethics’
 Pope, at interreligious gathering, highlights importance of prayer for peace

Released Thursday, Oct. 30

 Nigerian bishops: jihadists attack Muslims, too
 Educate yourselves for interior life, Pope urges young students
 Vatican will issue document on Virgin Mary’s titles next week
 Norcia’s venerable basilica reopens, nine years after earthquake devastation
 UN leader pays tribute to Vatican II’s Declaration on Christian Education
 Amazon ecclesial conference VP discusses rights of ecosystems
 Final Italian synodal document wins approval, calls for study of women deacons
 Icons consecrated in world’s largest Orthodox cathedral; Ecumenical Patriarch calls them response to heresies
 A year after lamenting Church’s response to abuse, Belgian king meets with Leo XIV
 Strengthen ecclesial communion and accompany the vulnerable, Pope tells Chilean bishops
 Synod leaders identify 8 ‘priority themes’
 Universities offer the ‘grace of an overarching vision,’ Pope preaches to students
 For 1st time, Pope Leo consecrates a bishop
 Popular movements issue statement: ‘Organizing Hope through an Alliance against Exclusion’

Released Wednesday, Oct. 29

 Philadelphia archdiocese moving to smaller office space
 Papal prayers for Jamaica as hurricane strikes
 Pope condemns anti-Semitism on anniversary of Nostra Aetate
 At jubilee Mass, papal tribute to three 20th-century Italian laymen
 Vatican official: Married couples are called to holiness as workers in the harvest
 USCCB president: Fund SNAP, end government shutdown
 Cardinal Czerny speaks to popular movements about ‘dream come true’
 ‘The Church will forever be our last and only home,’ Gaza Christian youth says
 Holy See concerned about nuclear facilities in war zones, Vatican diplomat says
 Pontiff says he will do everything possible to end Russo-Ukrainian war
 Dilexi Te is a beacon for Haiti, prelate says
 Pope addresses 7 questions on synodality
 ‘We don’t already have the answers to all the questions,’ Pope says in tribute to Nicholas of Cusa

Released Tuesday, Oct. 28

 Pope issues apostolic letter on education
 US states rate poorly on religious-freedom index
 Could Trump secure release of Jimmy Lai?
 Cardinal Parolin seeks more European involvement in Ukraine peace effort
 Lebanese leaders, Vatican officials discuss regional peace
 Ukrainian Bibles burned in Russian-occupied territories, Catholic leader says
 Prominent Haitian priest kidnapped
 Eventual elimination of nuclear weapons is ‘moral imperative,’ Vatican diplomat says
 Leading Bolivian prelate hopeful as Socialists lose power
 6 beatification causes advance
 The unity of Estonia’s Christians is the antithesis of Soviet regime’s hatred, Pontiff says
 Leo XIV tells Jesuits: Remain close to Jesus, for the Church needs you at the frontiers
 Pope Leo outlines his vision for John Paul II Institute
 Let us present ourselves honestly before God, Pope tells pilgrims

Released Monday, Oct. 27

 Cardinal Burke celebrates Traditional Mass in St. Peter’s
 Vatican releases schedule for papal trip to Turkey, Lebanon
 Pope, Assyrian Patriarch discuss ecumenical challenges
 Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban meets with Pontiff
 Brazilian cardinal decries evangelical missionary work that destroys indigenous culture
 Italian bishops address inland depopulation, poverty
 Vatican dicastery releases ‘Catholic Approaches to Mining’
 US missionary kidnapped in Niger
 Vatican diplomat sees use of AI in military systems as ‘unprecedented danger to humanity’
 Vatican interreligious gathering marks 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate
 German archbishop highlights Pontiff’s concern for pastoral care of illegal immigrants
 Be guardians of Christ’s tomb in expectation, charity, and hope, Pope tells Order of Holy Sepulchre
 Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica recalls St. John Paul II
 Pope, at jubilee Mass, calls for a servant Church that is ‘entirely synodal’

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Thu26 March
Lent

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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The weekday Masses towards the end of Lent are like a Passion Play. The Gospels, as one scene after the other, show the mounting hatred and growing tension. This is the “Abraham Mass,” telling of the inheritance received through Abraham. The Opening Prayer reminds us of our great inheritance received from Christ.…

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