Stories for week of February 02, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Feb. 7

 Another Nigerian priest kidnapped
 St. Louis archdiocese rebukes pastor for support for ‘transgender’ treatment
 New urgency needed against human trafficking, Pope says
 Pope lauds nuns who fight human trafficking
 New Jersey diocese blocked attorney general’s probe
 Mass attendance returns to pre-lockdown levels
 Ailing, Pontiff moves audiences to residence
 Pope praises midwives, ob-gyns who welcome babies with ‘humanity’
 NC court upholds lifting of statute of limitations for abuse cases
 Connecticut teacher booted from classroom over crucifix sues district
 French mayor disobeys order to remove Nativity scene
 With Myanmar’s military occupying cathedral, bishop holds ‘Jubilee in exile’
 Philippine bishops decry Chinese aggression, warn against appeasement
 USCCB committee chairman deplores human trafficking, calls on lawmakers to bolster survivor services

Released Thursday, Feb. 6

 Pope extends terms of elderly dean, subdean of College of Cardinals
 Argentine court denies Bishop Zanchetta’s appeal
 The story behind the pro-life pardons
 Vance cites Church fathers in speech on religious liberty
 Spokane bishop urges opposition to bill threatening confessional seal
 Be messengers of hope, Pope urges in Mission Day message
 Vatican approves statutes for Regnum Christi
 Nicene Creed, mutual love are bases for ecumenism, Pope tells Orthodox clerics
 Editor recalls Vatican Jubilee event as ‘strange,’ ‘politicized’
 Moscow Patriarch pushes for canonization of general whose troops massacred Polish civilians
 Papal condolences follow school shooting in Sweden
 Vatican meeting brings together Israeli, Palestinian youth
 New cardinal pleaded with Pope to work to repatriate kidnapped Ukrainian children
 God still calls young people to priesthood, religious life, Pope says in video
 French prosecutors won’t investigate Abbé Pierre abuse allegations, possible cover-up
 Maryland court upholds lifting of statute of limitations in abuse cases
 USCCB publishes Catholic primer on IVF

Released Wednesday, Feb. 5

 Filipino bishop applauds impeachment of vice president
 Spanish diocese bans parish course for blessing of same-sex unions
 Ailing Pope curtails weekly audience talk
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on Mary’s Visitation
 Ukrainian Catholic bishops call on President Trump to continue US assistance
 Court halted New Jersey’s investigation of state’s dioceses
 In defeat for Catholic Charities, federal judge upholds Michigan’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’
 Work for human fraternity, Pope tweets on anniversary of document’s signing
 Timor-Leste’s leader recalls papal visit, lauds Document on Human Fraternity
 Theme announced for World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly
 Missal published in Zou language
 Visiting bishops lament plight of Christians in West Bank

Released Tuesday, Feb. 4

 Russian Orthodox spokesman ‘bewildered, concerned’ by Vatican statements on sexuality
 Archbishop Broglio praises Trump move to end funding for abortion-related travel
 New Orleans archbishop denies demanding funds from food charity
 Fear reigns despite ceasefire in Goma, Congo bishop reports
 Cardinal Becciu’s brother and Sardinian bishop indicted for embezzlement
 New York attorney general challenges Trump on gender treatment for children
 Pope announces he will write apostolic exhortation on children
 In victory for Maine diocese, state court invalidates lifting of statute of limitations
 Syrian archbishop warns of threats against Christians, torture
 Arson at 17th-century Milan church
 Be patriotic and defend Ukraine, Pope Francis tells Ukrainian youth
 Italian Holocaust survivor meets with Pontiff
 There is no greater work than evangelization, Pope tells Scandinavian pilgrims
 USCCB prelates offer Lunar New Year greetings

Released Monday, Feb. 3

 NFL football team coached New Orleans archdiocese on abuse coverage
 Taiwanese leader protests exclusion in message to Pope
 Priest pulled off altar in latest Syro-Malabar violence
 Top investigator confirms suppression of Peruvian lay movement, SCV
 Ex-Vatican bank employees challenge dismissal for marriage
 Pope decries neglect, mistreatment of children
 Pope stumbles as walker breaks at audience
 Trump ends taxpayer funding for abortion travel in military
 USCCB committee chairman welcomes President Trump’s executive order on parental choice in education
 14 months after unexpected resignation, Argentine prelate named to new position
 Shaolin monks meet with Pontiff
 Special papal Jubilee audience: Let us, like St. Mary Magdalene, ‘convert more than once’
 Renewal takes place in silent Eucharistic adoration, Pope preaches to religious
 Yes to children, no to war: papal comments after Angelus address
 ‘Jesus is salvation, Jesus is light, and Jesus is the sign of contradiction,’ Pope tells pilgrims

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Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Peter Damian, Bishop & Doctor

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Today is Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. It also is the Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian (1007-1072), a man of vehemence in all his actions who was brought up in the hard school of poverty, found that he had the vocation of a reformer. He exercised it in the first place against…

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