Stories for week of December 14, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Dec. 19

 Retired Albany bishop files bankruptcy after court judgment
 NY archdiocese to sell hotel land for $490M
 Pontiff appoints new archbishop of Westminster
 Burkina Faso bishop discusses Islamist insurgency’s toll
 ‘Maximum security’ planned for Pakistan’s churches at Christmas
 USCCB gave $2.6M in grants to Africa in 2024
 Vatican diplomat calls for safe return of refugees to home countries
 War refugees are dying of hunger, Congolese bishop says
 Pope Leo: The human person, not capital, should be at the center of work
 War victim, assassinated leader’s daughter help present papal peace message
 Pope, in phone call with Israeli president, reiterates Church’s condemnation of anti-Semitism

Released Thursday, Dec. 18

 Pope Leo’s vision of ‘disarming peace’ [News Analysis]
 Vatican dicastery moves candidates toward beatification
 New York Governor Hochul will sign assisted-suicide legislation
 Christian prelates ask Israel to allow treatment for Gaza children
 Filipino rebels announce Christmas truce
 Confirmed: Bishop Hicks to head New York archdiocese
 North Carolina bishop calls for routine use of extraordinary ministers; bans altar rails, intinction
 Poor nations should have access to benefits of information society, Vatican diplomat says
 Pope expresses gratitude to superiors of women’s religious orders
 Cardinal Parolin asks lawmakers to put Christ at the center of their lives, remember God’s judgment
 Pope attends elementary school’s Christmas concert
 Bishop who apologized to LGBTQ community to lead California diocese
 Prominent African prelate transferred to far smaller diocese
 Bethlehem’s deputy mayor grateful for papal peace appeals
 Prepare for Christmas by going to Confession, Pope Leo advises
 Vatican newspaper highlights growing wealth inequality

Released Wednesday, Dec. 17

 Radical priest silenced in Brazil
 Uganda confirms arrest of missing priest
 Only Jesus brings peace of heart, Pope tells audience
 Illinois bishop to head New York archdiocese?
 Oakland diocese offers $242M to abuse victims
 Prayer outside abortion clinic protected by law, Spanish court rules
 People are ‘very depressed’ in Gaza, says parish priest
 Cardinal Chow dismisses claims of religious persecution in Hong Kong
 1 killed, 13 worshippers abducted in attack on Nigerian evangelical church
 Read the documents of Vatican II for yourself, former Vatican spokesman advises
 Vatican Christmas tree, Nativity scene inaugurated in St. Peter’s Square
 Missionary describes attacks on civilians in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
 Malta’s prime minister discusses peace, climate change with Pontiff
 Pope, in letter, advises young people to show ‘concrete charity,’ turn to St. John Henry Newman

Released Tuesday, Dec. 16

 Liturgy, governance on agenda for January meeting of cardinals
 United Airlines settles suit with Catholic flight attendant
 Bishops’ immigration spokesman defends USCCB stance
 Michigan AG releases report on alleged abuse in Diocese of Grand Rapids
 Federal court sides with New Orleans archdiocese, against priest who alleged discrimination
 Thai desire for military glory is fomenting conflict, Cambodian prelate says
 USCCB president expresses prayerful solidarity with Jewish community following Sydney shooting
 Pontifical academy president believes late physicist’s theories point to Christianity
 Vatican security forces hold jubilee
 Papal appeal for peace in DR Congo
 Pope Leo: The Nativity scene reminds us we are never alone
 Pope, addressing conductor Muti and concert performers, speaks of importance of music
 Follow Christ and know the divine law, Pope tells priests, religious, and seminarians

Released Monday, Dec. 15

 Pope decries Australian shooting, condemns anti-Semitism
 Filipino bishops oppose nuclear power generation
 Czech prosecutor seeks rehabilitation of Cardinal Beran, foe of Communist regime
 Sydney’s Archbishop Fisher blasts anti-Semitism after mass murder
 Hong Kong court finds Jimmy Lai guilty
 Diplomacy builds on honesty, trust, Pope says
 Cardinal Parolin: Violence in Mozambique has ‘fundamentally religious root’
 Cardinal Fernández delivers address on Mary as Mother of Evangelization
 Record 12.8 million pilgrims visit Guadalupe shrine
 Vatican newspaper highlights plight of Tuvalu’s migrants
 Vatican publishes book on progress of Methodist-Catholic dialogue
 Martyrs beatified in Spain, France
 Rejoice, for Jesus is our hope, Pope tells pilgrims on Gaudete Sunday
 ‘Let no one be lost,’ Pontiff preaches at Jubilee of Prisoners
 Papal preacher reflects on rebuilding the Lord’s house
 On Guadalupe feast day, Pope prays that leaders shun lies, hatred, division, disrespect for life

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