Stories for week of February 09, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Friday, Feb. 14

 Archbishop Cordileone restates key principles on immigration
 Slovak prime minister meets with Pontiff
 Russia sees room for ‘humanitarian cooperation’ with Vatican on Ukraine
 Burkina Faso: 2 catechists brutally killed in a road attack
 Catholic woman named to 7-member committee drafting Syria’s new constitution
 Vatican newspaper sees ‘glimmer of hope for peace’ in Ukraine following Trump phone calls
 Sent to South America: Did German bishops hide abusers?
 Federal judge prevents Pittsburgh from designating closed church as historic structure
 Salvation is ‘not an escape hatch but a rescue plan,’ Bishop Tyson says in social ministry keynote
 Cardinal Gregory regrets his response to the Covid pandemic
 Pope Francis hospitalized for bronchitis treatment, Vatican says

Released Thursday, Feb. 13

 US bishops’ migration chairman: Vance ‘clearly doesn’t know me’
 Church leaders meet with rebel chieftain in Democratic Republic of Congo
 Vatican exhibit will show inmates’ portraits on outer jail wall
 UK Mass attendance rising, but still far short of pre-lockdown figure
 Caritas president decries suspension of AID funding
 Church groups file suit against Trump immigration-raid policy
 Cardinal Parolin: Wealthy nations are obliged to aid developing nations
 Anglican church rejects fully independent handling of abuse complaints
 59-year-old Argentine bishop resigns; turnover continues
 USCCB president welcomes Vatican’s decision to inscribe Mother Teresa on General Roman Calendar
 UK police target pro-life volunteer for standing silently in abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’
 Missionary describes brutality, chaos in Goma
 Cardinal Cupich welcomes papal letter on immigration, issue of ‘preeminent urgency’

Released Wednesday, Feb. 12

 Lingering bronchitis curbs Pope’s talk at audience
 Illinois officials vote to remove Henry Hyde’s name from courthouse
 European bishops call attention to Congo crisis
 Pope repeats weekly prayer for peace
 Miami archbishop criticizes Biden’s ‘ineptness’ on immigration, says border walls should have doors
 Archbishop Gomez laments mass deportation, recalls that Obama deported more than 5 million
 Trump border czar knocks papal criticism: ‘Fix the Catholic Church’
 New Mumbai archbishop speaks of Church of joy
 Archbishop Broglio writes Pope, expresses US bishops’ ‘profound gratitude’ for ‘prayerful support’
 USCCB National Marriage Week statement: Commitment to fidelity and love in marriage is a source of hope
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on Christ’s Nativity, visit of the shepherds

Released Tuesday, Feb. 11

 Background: World Day of the Sick
 Bishop Zanchetta expected back in Argentina to serve prison sentence
 Filipino bishop asks prayers for ‘sick’ environment
 Caritas International blasts ‘reckless’ closing of US AID
 Mother Teresa’s feast day formally set: September 5
 Cardinal Tobin orders investigation of Seton Hall/McCarrick connection
 AI must serve human dignity, Pope reminds French President Macron
 Pope denounces Trump immigration plans [News/Analysis]
 US bishops’ conference lays off 50 migration staffers
 President Trump establishes White House Faith Office
 Man jumps onto high altar in St. Peter’s Basilica
 Cardinal Schönborn: ‘What is currently happening in the USA is extremely dangerous’
 Kansas archbishop praises Trump, criticizes Biden, ‘saddened’ by Vance remarks on immigration
 Proposed legislation will harm indigenous peoples, Philippine prelates warn
 Church builds culture of encounter through schools, other institutions, Vatican diplomat says
 USCCB committee chairmen welcome executive order keeping men out of women’s sports

Released Monday, Feb. 10

 Singapore Catholics shaken by assaults on priests
 Regime bombers damage cathedral in Myanmar
 Israeli Jesuit protests Trump plan for Gaza
 Vatican cardinal decries Trump plan to eliminate AID
 Nicaraguan foreign ministry lashes out at Vatican
 Cincinnati’s Archbishop Schnurr recovering from surgery after fall at home
 Pope’s breathing problems continue
 Cardinal McElroy rips Trump’s ‘war of fear and terror’
 Pope urges preservation of indigenous cultures
 Papal message: Vocation means perceiving the needs of others
 Papal encouragement to confraternities: be ‘crazy with love,’ in heartful prayer
 President Trump issues executive order ‘eradicating anti-Christian bias’
 Police and soldiers, like Jesus, ‘see, go aboard, and sit down’: papal homily for Jubilee Mass
 Renewed papal appeal for prayer for peace
 Pope upholds use of armed forces for legitimate defense
 Catholic Charities had $4.9M operating deficit in 2023-24

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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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