Stories for week of January 05, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Saturday, Jan. 11

 Italian prelate, bishops’ newspaper deny media reports on admission of gay men to seminaries

Released Friday, Jan. 10

 Cardinal Parolin, in Jordan, calls for ceasefire in Holy Land
 Be shaken by the Holy Spirit, Pope exhorts missionaries
 Pope meets with pediatric cancer patients
 Philadelphia archbishop launches plan for ‘missionary hubs’
 Polish prelate decries proposal to outlaw confession for children
 Pope praises effort of Global Compact on Education
 Only 52% of funds spent by US bishops’ Catholic Relief Services collection went to CRS, report shows
 USCCB president, in MLK Day message, calls for creation of more just society
 ‘Jubilee of Hope in Italian Prisons’ begins
 Nicaraguan regime suppresses contemplative Dominican nuns
 Cardinal Bo, other Christian leaders host controversial dinner with Myanmar’s military leader
 As Venezuela’s presidential inauguration looms, prelate calls for respect for human rights
 Los Angeles deacon, parishioners save church from fire

Released Thursday, Jan. 9

 Biden cancels plan for final trip, papal audience
 Nigerian kidnappings continue: two nuns abducted
 Massive procession honors ‘Black Nazarene’ in Manila
 Vatican lists diplomatic ties with 184 countries
 Cardinal Tobin announces plan for ‘pastoral conversion’ in Newark
 Pope cuts short speech, citing ‘bit of a cold’
 Pope’s ‘State of the World’ address calls for ‘diplomacy of hope’
 Police say they have foiled planned jihadist attack on Spanish basilica
 Some young Haitians are converting to Islam for money, bishop says
 Renewed papal appeal for prayer for peace
 Papal tribute to circus entertainers
 Devotion to Blessed Carlo Acutis spreads among Asian youth
 Ecumenical Patriarch celebrates Christmas in Russian parish, prays for unity with Catholic Church
 Los Angeles fire destroys parish
 USCCB office publishes ‘Catholic Elements of Immigration Reform’

Released Wednesday, Jan. 8

 Ukrainian priest wounded in drone attack
 China’s oldest priest dies at 104
 Pope, at audience, speaks on exploitation of children
 Papal Christmas wishes to Eastern Christians, renewed appeal for prayer for peace
 In unusual move, Pope transfers Italian prelate from archdiocese to diocese
 Over 500,000 pilgrims have passed through holy door of St. Peter’s Basilica
 Temporary Anglican leader, in letter, discusses sexual abuse, same-sex couples
 Giving ourselves to others is the ‘best catechesis,’ Vatican cardinal preaches
 Cardinal Parolin to consecrate Church of the Baptism of the Lord in Jordan
 Moscow Patriarch, in Christmas message, condemns those who take up ‘arms against Orthodoxy’

Released Tuesday, Jan. 7

 French bishop forced to resign
 Abortion was leading cause of deaths worldwide in 2024
 Cameroon bishops oppose aged president’s bid for 8th term
 Sudan government leader reaches out to Catholic community
 Mass deportations ‘incompatible with Catholic doctrine,’ Cardinal McElroy says at DC press conference
 California requires foster parents to affirm transgenderism
 Cardinal Dolan to lead prayer at President Trump’s inauguration
 Stop making ‘incendiary comments,’ American Jewish leaders urge Pope Francis
 Vocations grow in Burkina Faso despite terrorism
 Papal encouragement to children to be missionaries in prayer and solidarity
 Pope contrasts Magi, ‘desk’ theologians
 The star is bright, is visible, and points the way, Pope preaches at Epiphany Mass

Released Monday, Jan. 6

 Catholic representation grows in US Congress
 First woman named prefect of Vatican dicastery
 Nigerian priest charged in fatal shooting
 Italian bishops’ newspaper rapped for questions about Holy Family
 Pope names Cardinal McElroy new Archbishop of Washington
 Renewed papal appeal for prayer for peace, condemnation of attacks on schools, hospitals
 Imitate the God of love, Pope tells pilgrims
 Pope attends episcopal ordination of Rome’s new auxiliary bishop
 Papal warning against bullying in schools
 Pointed papal warnings against nuns’ ‘vinegar faces,’ women’s gossip
 Adore, serve, walk: papal encouragement for confraternity members
 Be joyful pilgrims of hope, as the saints were, Pope tells blind persons

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Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot (251-356) from the 3rd century. St. Anthony, the Father of the monastics, retired to the desert at about the age of eighteen in order to live in perfect solitude. Many heard about his ascetic life and came to join him in his hermitage, He laid the…

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