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Stories for week of November 30, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Dec. 5

Minnesota court rules Church can dismiss ‘transgender’ employee

Bangladesh: Muslim group threatens violent attack on Catholic colleges

Chinese bishop installed with papal approval

Consider impact of AI on young people, Pope urges

Pope welcomes performers for Concert for the Poor

USCCB: Black Catholic young adults are concerned about gerontocracy, ‘LGBTQ+ issues’

‘Rethink trade,’ Holy See urges UN trade organization

Roberto Benigni, Pope Leo meet ahead of actor’s St. Peter monologue broadcast

Vatican foreign minister prods European security organization on peace, religious freedom

Vatican bank publishes sustainability report

Theme of papal preacher’s Advent sermons: ‘Awaiting and hastening the coming of the day of God’’

Mongolian president meets with Pontiff

Pope Leo asks Slovakia to uphold the traditional family and build bridges, not walls

Ukrainian bishops, in pastoral letter, call for prayer, fasting, almsgiving for nation’s sake

Vatican newspaper spotlights world’s ‘culpable silence’ on Haiti

Released Thursday, Dec. 4

Pope abolishes newly created Vatican fundraising commission

Vatican commission says No to female deacons

Archbishop Broglio rips Trump campaign against Venezuelan drug trade

Another Nigerian priest kidnapped

Prelate assumes presidency of Philippine bishops’ conference

Alabama vicar general laicized followed allegation

Chapel in Italy’s busiest train station desecrated

Pope Leo’s childhood home designated a historic landmark

USCCB backs change from ‘gender’ to ‘sex’ in Trump administration’s refugee forms

Papal visit has awakened Turkish Catholics from their slumber, prelate says

Archbishop dismisses claims of persecution of Christians in Nigeria

Holy See renews call for immediate end to war in Ukraine

Caritas disappointed in result of UN climate change conference

Ukrainian Catholic leader calls for fervent prayer, fasting for peace

Released Wednesday, Dec. 3

Vatican employees skeptical of Holy See budget figures

EU court requires nations to accept same-sex marriages

Syro-Malabar liturgy celebrated in cathedral after three years closed

Cameroon: kidnappers release last priest held in captivity

Retired German bishop joins critics of conference document on sexuality

Cardinal Koch: Benedict XVI is my favorite pope

Vatican halves 2024 budget deficit, according to new financial statement

Supreme Court weighs appeal from NJ faith-based pregnancy centers

Amid fragile truce, 2 million people in Gaza have nothing, parish priest says

‘We need less Herod, trapped in fear,’ Cardinal Tagle tells Asian Catholic leaders

USCCB expresses prayers, solidarity for Nigerian Catholic school kidnapping victims

Vatican diplomat voices reservations about UN’s political declaration on human trafficking

European bishops’ conferences discuss Christian-Muslim dialogue

Italian prelates commemorate 60th anniversary of lifting of 1054 excommunications

Vatican spokesman comments on papal theme: ‘disappear so that Christ may remain’

Released Tuesday, Dec. 2

Papal airplane interview touches on conclave, secret peace talks, travel plans

Pope concludes Lebanon visit with prayers for peace

Indian Catholic villagers end 414-day hunger strike

Holy See mission concerned about aid reductions to least developed countries

Jubilee participants reminded of importance of common good, peace

Church attacked in Nigeria

Bishops of Central African Republic score corruption, nepotism in election statement

Custos makes solemn entrance into Bethlehem

CCHD, US bishops’ anti-poverty program, announces $3.5M in grants for 2026

‘Listen to what God is calling you to be and do,’ Pope tells Australian youth

Vatican spokesman describes papal invitation to Jerusalem in 2033 as ‘humble and courageous’

Video released for December papal prayer intention

Released Monday, Dec. 1

Belarus: priests’ future uncertain after pardon and release

Texas Catholic charity charged with mishandling federal funds

‘Co-Redemptrix’ title barred only from official statements: Cardinal Fernandez

Prayer for peace is main theme of Pope’s 2nd day in Lebanon

Departing Turkey, Pope holds in-flight press conference, calls on Lebanese to be peacemakers

Holy See mission assesses African economy

Superiors-general reflect on the digital age

To be good economists, know the divine economy: papal message

Vatican spokesman highlights ‘strength of littleness’

December papal prayer intention: for Christians in areas of conflict

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