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A Catholic group is honoring victims of nuclear weapons by helping to organize lantern floating ceremonies throughout the world. Pax Christi International, a Catholic peace movement, is working with the Hiroshima Coventry Club (Touro Project) to organize the “Lanterns for Peace: from Hiroshima to the World” campaign around the world. “Inspired by the lantern ceremonies…
The Michigan government this week released its sixth report of diocesan abuse allegations in the state, revealing abuse claims against more than three dozen priests and one deacon in the Diocese of Saginaw. The state attorney general’s report is the second-to-last of a total of seven investigations into clergy and Church abuse in Michigan. Prior…
Pope Leo XIV opened his second extraordinary consistory of cardinals on June 26 by defending his decision to conduct the gathering in a synodal format, acknowledging that the approach is unusual, but insisting that the Lord is leading the Church along this path so that she can “grow in communion.” Addressing 178 cardinals in the Paul VI Hall…
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration is pleading with President Donald Trump to allow Haitian and Syrian migrants to remain in the United States following a Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for possible deportations. Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, who chairs the committee, asked Trump to refrain from deporting the…
As the Catholic Church in India prepares for nationwide prayers on Sunday, June 28, to voice its concerns over legislation affecting Church ministries, the federal government has issued tougher rules under the country’s existing law on foreign donations. “This is totally unnecessary,” Father Mathew Koyickal, deputy secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India…
Pope Leo XIV met privately with members of the Synod on Synodality’s continental bodies at the Vatican on June 25, as they concluded a recent conference to reflect on the synod’s implementation ahead of the ecclesial assembly in October 2028. Held on the eve of the two-day extraordinary consistory of cardinals, which began at the…
The parable of the prodigal son has been depicted many times in art. Recently, the choir Harpa Dei, made up of three siblings, released a Gregorian chant video that tells this story of “the Father’s mercy and his great longing for lost children to return home.” “Over the past few weeks, we have been working…
Pope Leo XIV has sent 100,000 euros (about $114,000) in humanitarian aid to Venezuela following two devastating earthquakes that hit the country on June 24. The Holy Father sent the funds in order to express his closeness to the Venezuelan people through a donation made via the papal almoner, the pope’s charitable office, according to…
Bishop Iyad Akram Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said Christians face an increasingly precarious situation in the Middle East. War, economic instability, and continued emigration are placing increasing pressure on the Christian presence in the region, driving a significant decline in communities across the Holy Land and neighboring countries, Twal said…
The only weekly celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in western Kentucky will come to an end this weekend, following an order from Diocese of Owensboro Bishop William Medley, who says he is enforcing Pope Francis’ 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes. Immaculate Conception Parish in Earlington — the oldest Catholic church in Hopkins County,…
