Falls can humble people when they are “puffed up,” showing God’s power to save, and can become “milestones on a personal journey of salvation, to be recalled gratefully,” Bishop Erik Varden said during this week’s Lenten retreat for Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Curia. Yet, he warned, “we cannot afford to be gullible.” “Not…

A pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre Dame is turning down a leadership appointment there after weeks of backlash that included more than a dozen U.S. bishops criticizing the school for its decision. Mary Gallagher, the dean of the university’s Keough School of Global Affairs, wrote in an email on Feb. 26 that Professor…

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines paid tribute to the late Cardinal Jaime Sin on the 40th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, honoring the former archbishop of Manila for his prophetic role in the bloodless 1986 uprising that ended the two-decade dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas led the Mass…

In the 70 years of RECongress, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual Religious Education Congress, the event has hosted several Masses and liturgies featuring an array of languages and cultures. But for the first time in its history, RECongress hosted an Arabic Mass put on by the Arab American Catholic Community (AACC), based out of…

The Diocese of Syracuse, New York, will exit bankruptcy proceedings after the final approval of a massive nine-figure abuse settlement, the diocese said this week. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Wendy Kinsella gave the green light for the $176 million settlement, the diocese said in a press release on Feb. 25, marking the “official conclusion” of the…

Lourdes University in Ohio announces closure amid ‘mounting financial pressures’ Lourdes University in Ohio will shut down due to declining enrollment, rising costs, and an “unsustainable funding model,” the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, Ohio, and the school’s board of trustees revealed this week. The university will continue operations through the remainder of the…

Here is a roundup of Catholic world news you might have missed this week: Sri Lanka police arrest former top intelligence official over 2019 Easter suicide bombing Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department has arrested Major General Suresh Sallay, the former director of military intelligence at the time of the 2019 Easter suicide bombings that targeted…

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recovered money that it says the U.S. Department of State owed the conference for refugee resettlement and voluntarily ended its lawsuit against the department. According to court records, Judge Trevor N. McFadden dismissed the lawsuit on Jan. 23, one day after the bishops requested the federal District Court…