Stories for week of November 16, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Wednesday, Nov. 19

 Pope calls for liturgical, biblical formation
 Missionary from India named Canadian archbishop
 Leading Spanish bishops meet with Pontiff
 Islamist rebels kill patients, set fire to Catholic health clinic in DR Congo
 ‘Red Week’ highlights plight of persecuted Christians
 Archbishop Coakley praises governor for commuting death sentence
 World Day of Sick to be held in Peru
 Ukrainian Catholic leader deplores corruption
 Papal tribute to Father Casamassa, 20th-century Augustinian scholar
 Bishops of Sudan, South Sudan lament ongoing conflicts

Released Tuesday, Nov. 18

 Pregnancy-help centers served 1 million in US in 2024
 Detroit archdiocese announces downsizing plans
 Pope underlines climate urgency in message to COP30
 Cardinal Zuppi exhorts Italian bishops to serve cause of peace
 Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria
 USCCB encourages ‘Cabrini Pledge’
 Vatican officials weigh in on AI
 Vatican diplomat: Catholic institutions under ‘extreme duress’ in Sudan
 Nuclear menace is ‘morally indefensible,’ Vatican foreign minister says
 Pope encourages University of Notre Dame to build bridges
 Outpatient center inaugurated at St. Peter’s
 Leading African, Latin American prelates lament world’s ecological state
 Emotional Philippine bishop decries corruption’s toll on poor
 Pope gives indigenous artifacts to Canadian bishops
 The Church does not seek to proselytize, Pontiff tells Ghana’s ambassador

Released Monday, Nov. 17

 Brazilian traditionalist bishop meets with Pope in private audience
 Papal message to conference on curbing abuse in religious communities
 Ensure easy access to Scripture, Pope urges
 Synod’s ‘study groups’ release interim reports
 New York pastors report leap in adult conversions
 USCCB publishes new edition of Ethical and Religious Directives for health care
 Vatican diplomat urges support for UN Palestinian relief agency, deplores Israeli attacks
 France recalls victims of Islamist terrorist attacks; Notre-Dame’s bells toll
 Make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Catholic leaders urge
 Cardinal Parolin, at Pompei, recalls ‘interior haste’ of Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Bartolo Longo
 Vatican cardinal asks: Was Newman a mystic?
 Pontiff expresses appreciation for cinema
 ‘So many forms of poverty oppress our world,’ Pope preaches on World Day of the Poor
 ‘Hero of the confessional’ beatified in Bari
 Pope highlights plight of persecuted Christians, civilians in DR Congo, Ukraine

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Mechtilde (1241-1298), who was born to a noble family in Heifta, Saxony, and was placed in a Benedictine convent at age seven. Mechtilde was a mystic, and aided St. Gertrude with her Book of Special Graces or The Revelation of St.…

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