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Gaza parish attack, Marian devotion & vocations, St. Thomas More exhumation | Week in Review
OSV News
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July 18, 2025
2 Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas and others across the nation are offering material and spiritual aid to those impacted by the devastating July 4 flash floods in...
Baptize Technology: Sometimes Grace Speaks Javascript
Word on Fire - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
I recently visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, the largest Marian pilgrimage site in Latin America. It was a weekday, but the plaza was packed. A sea of pilgrims, some barefoot, some weeping, many just silent, gazed at...
Into the mystery: How virtual reality is reimagining Catholic evangelization
OSV News
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July 18, 2025
SYDNEY (OSV News) — The experience begins with a luminous church window framing a radiant image of Blessed Carlo Acutis hovering inches before your face. As angelic music plays and hues of blue transform your immediate surroundings, reality itself...
Judge temporarily freezes parish payments toward Buffalo diocese’s clergy sex abuse settlement
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 16, 2025
Several Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, do not have to make payments to the diocese’s $150 million clergy sex abuse settlement for the time being, a state Supreme Court judge ruled last week. CatholicVote previously reported...
8 things to know about the only Catholic parish in Gaza
Catholic News Agency
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July 18, 2025
CNA Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 04:10 am A reported strike on the only Catholic Church in Gaza killed three people and injured nine others July 17, according to a statement from the Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM. Among the...
Pope prays for conversion of those resisting climate action at new Mass
The Boston Pilot - Massachusetts
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July 18, 2025
ROME -- "We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home," Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass "for the care of...
Holy Family Gaza pastor injured and 3 killed after mid-morning Israeli attack
Catholic Standard - Washington D.C.
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Three people were confirmed dead and nine were injured, including a parish pastor, following what initial reports say was a mid-morning Israeli tank attack on the Holy Family Parish Church in Gaza on July 17. In a July 17 telegram, Pope Leo XIV...
Galway Diocese confirms removal of Bishop Eamonn Casey's remains from cathedral crypt
Galway Beo
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July 19, 2025
The remains of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey have been removed from the crypt of Galway Cathedral, the Diocese of Galway has confirmed. The announcement was made in a statement issued this morning by the Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and...
Pope Leo XIV Arrives at Castel Gandolfo
FSSPX.NEWS
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"Our city is rediscovering its daily connection with the Pope!" The mayor of Castel Gandolfo makes no secret of his joy on this July 6, 2025, as Peter's successor greets the hundreds of people present upon his arrival at the papal palace. It was...
Pope Leo says hopes to visit Türkiye in months ahead
Hurriyet Daily News
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VATICAN CITY Pope Leo XIV confirmed Thursday he hoped to visit Türkiye in the coming months for a Christian religious commemoration, in what could be his first overseas trip as pontiff. "I hope to be able to meet you again in a few months to take...
Pizzaballa and Theophilus III in Gaza among Christians affected by an Israeli attack
Asia News
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July 18, 2025
Jerusalem (AsiaNews) – The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, accompanied by the Greek Orthodox Primate Theophilus III, entered Gaza today after more than a year to bring a message of closeness and solidarity to the...
Pope Leo XIV recognizes medical miracle in Rhode Island
WJAR - Rhode Island
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Pope Leo XIV says a miracle in Rhode Island can be attributed to the intercession of a 19th century Spanish priest. The Vatican said a baby born in 2007 was inexplicably healed after a prayer to Father Salvador Valera Parra. The story was reported...
Filled with hope, Christians know cries of the innocent will be heard, pope says
Detroit Catholic
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July 17, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The cry of innocent victims and mothers mourning their children will not go unheard, Pope Leo XIV said. When Christians chant "the Easter Alleluia, 'Christ is risen! He is truly risen!' he said, "those words proclaim that the...
Remains of Bishop Eamonn Casey removed from Galway Cathedral crypt
Irish Examiner
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July 19, 2025
The remains of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey have been removed from the crypt at Galway Cathedral, the Diocese of Galway has confirmed. In a statement on Saturday, the Galway Diocesan Office said that, with the “assent and cooperation” of members...
Pologne : baisse des ordinations sacerdotales
FSSPX.NEWS
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L’agence catholique d’information polonaise KAI, a fait le décompte des ordinations à partir des données des curies diocésaines, des rectorats des séminaires et de la Conférence des supérieurs majeurs des ordres masculins. En 2024, 235 prêtres...
Keynoter: Bible is a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny
United Church of Christ - Ohio
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July 13, 2025
The Rev. Jennifer Butler did not mince words during her keynote address to the 35th General Synod of the United Church of Christ, saying “these are terrifying times.” But she also delivered a message of hope, declaring that the Bible is a...
‘Yeti blood oath’ divides Denver seminary
The Pillar
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July 15, 2025
Clergy in the Archdiocese of Denver are divided over the handling of a controversial “blood oath” ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians during a ski trip last year. A group of seminarians studying at Denver’s St. John Vianney...
Israel Apologizes After Trump Reportedly Gave Them a Furious Call: 'Life Lost Is a Tragedy'
The Western Journal
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July 17, 2025
President Donald Trump reportedly confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a military strike on a Catholic church in Gaza that killed civilians. “It was not a positive reaction,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said...
Mahmoud v. Taylor: A Supreme Court victory for parents, freedom
Catholic Review - Maryland
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July 17, 2025
In a momentous decision that has far-reaching implications for the future of public education and religious liberty in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that parents, not the state, hold the primary right to...
Rock’n’Pola Returns for Its 10th Year
Euro Weekly News
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July 18, 2025
A crowd carried by sound and summer air. Photo credit: Okan Caliskan on Pixabay Calling all rock and metal lovers – Santa Pola’s biggest heavy music event is back! On July 25 and 26, Rock’n’Pola is celebrating its 10th anniversary at El Palmeral...