Stories for week of March 30, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Thursday, Apr. 3

 Did India’s bishops alienate Muslims?
 New Vatican statement underlines achievement of Council of Nicea
 Estonia’s President meets with Cardinal Parolin
 New rules to restrict religious activities by foreigners in China
 Catholic college president defends commencement honor for McAleese
 Pope encourages charismatics to share expeirience
 Azerbaijani becomes 56th language available on Vatican News
 Vatican hosts screening of The Chosen: Last Supper
 Ukrainian Catholic leader links St. John Paul’s legacy, nation’s struggle for freedom
 Axe-wielding man attacks Christian parade in Iraq
 Pope, in message, praises La Civiltà Cattolica for ‘rigorous respect for truth’
 ‘Look less at screens, and look each other in the eyes more,’ Pope urges in video
 Catholic aid organizations in a race against time, obstacles to provide relief in Myanmar
 Vatican marks 20th anniversary of St. John Paul’s death with Mass, newspaper tributes

Released Wednesday, Apr. 2

 Vatican UN envoy wants interest-free loans to ‘middle-income’ countries
 Vatican investigator warns: Institute of the Incarnate Word resisting reform
 Pope’s subject for weekly address: Zacchaeus meets Jesus
 Ecumenical group denounces Israeli displacement of Palestinians
 Vatican releases Holy Week liturgical schedule without naming celebrants
 Spain no longer a Catholic country, archbishop says
 Cardinal Nichols, in pastoral letter, denounces assisted-suicide bill
 Flashback 20 years ago: the death of Pope John Paul II
 Syracuse abuse victims back $100M bankruptcy plan
 Kentucky lawmakers defy court decision, order return of Ten Commandments monument to capitol
 Church in Bahrain takes further root with introduction of child missionary society
 Report finds 111 attacks on Israeli Christians in 2024; most perpetrated by ‘ultra-Orthodox’ Jews
 Italian synodal assembly, day 1: Dialogue with the world is essential, says Cardinal Zuppi
 Cardinal Parolin calls on mankind, Europe to turn to Christ, seek healing, peace

Released Tuesday, Apr. 1

 Cameroon bishops issue pastoral letter on October elections
 Vatican update on papal health
 Trump administration withholding some Planned Parenthood funding
 Supreme Court grills Wisconsin attorney on Catholic Charities case
 ‘John Paul II effect’ seen in Latin America’s fertility rise
 Breaking: Mystery vandals cut top from Vatican obelisk
 April papal prayer intention: proper use of new technologies
 Evangelical organizations join USCCB in lamenting potential impact of deportations
 Catholic woman named Syria’s labor minister
 ‘Everything comes from the Spirit,’ Pope tells Italian bishops’ synodal assembly
 Trappistine monastery designated jubilee pilgrimage site
 Pope appoints 85-year-old to govern 2 Eastern-rite jurisdictions
 For 3rd time in recent months, Chicago priest named archbishop

Released Monday, Mar. 31

 Supreme Court hears arguments in key Catholic Charities test case
 Vatican approves two canonizations
 Myanmar cardinal urges humanitarian ceasefire after earthquake
 ‘Spirit of Teilhard de Chardin’ hovers over Lateran Basilica meeting, Vatican newspaper reports
 In wide-ranging talk, Cardinal Parolin discusses peace, nuclear weapons, immigration
 Papal call for new forms of cooperation between Albanian Orthodox, Catholics
 Missionaries of Mercy are called to bear witness to God’s ‘paternal face,’ Pope writes
 ‘Proclaim the Gospel with confidence,’ Pope tells Czech faithful
 Only 29 Catholic priests ordained in Germany in 2024
 Lourdes basilica covers Rupnik mosaics
 ‘Be witnesses of hope’: papal message to jubilee pilgrims
 Pope appeals for prayer for peace, laments ‘appalling humanitarian catastrophe’ in Sudan
 Papal Angelus address: ‘Let us live this Lent as a time of healing’

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More than any other Gospel, John gives us an insight into the suffering soul of Jesus. Today we have the “Moses Mass.” In it both readings speak of that great Prophet and Deliverer of the people. And we note how the plot against the Lord’s life is thickening. Moses is a type of Christ—the interceding suffering…

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