21+ hour, 12+ min ago   (222+ words) Twenty-six priests of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Germany, said in a letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx that his recent instruction to priests to facilitate same-sex blessings was creating a loyalty conflict with the “general doctrine and moral teaching…...

23+ hour, 12+ min ago   (167+ words) » Continue to this story on Catholic Herald CWN Editor's Note: A laywoman and a German bishop delivered a joint homily at Mass on July 22, despite the Vatican’s recent reaffirmation that only clergy are permitted to preach homilies during Mass. Auxiliary…...

23+ hour, 12+ min ago   (268+ words) Pope Leo XIV today named seven new members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, including Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, California; Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, secretary emeritus of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts; and…...

23+ hour, 12+ min ago   (191+ words) Over the past two decades, 91 men’s and women’s monasteries have closed in France, according to a study conducted by sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. According to the study: 34% of monasteries whose liturgy is celebrated in French…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (162+ words) » Continue to this story on Office of the High Commissioner CWN Editor's Note: The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights lamented the persecution of the Church in Nicaragua. “I am disturbed by the reports of repression against the Catholic Church…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (240+ words) Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the General Secretariat of the Synod, called upon Asian dioceses to become more synodal with a view to exchanging their gifts with other dioceses in the universal Church. “If a local church fails to…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (149+ words) » Continue to this story on Ultima Hora (Asunción) CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Adalberto Martínez Flores of Asunción, Paraguay, condemned a brutal armed attack on a police station in Canindeyú. As he called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice,…...

14+ hour, 12+ min ago   (255+ words) L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent article in its July 24 edition to the wildfires afflicting parts of Europe. “From France to Spain, and across vast areas of the Mediterranean, fires of unprecedented violence are devouring forests, countryside, homes, and infrastructure,…...

14+ hour, 12+ min ago   (245+ words) Preaching to bishops from across Asia, Cardinal Anthony Poola of Hyderabad, India, said today that “the apostolic office is not a seat to occupy but a cup to receive. It is not first about a visible position, but about participating…...

22+ hour, 19+ min ago   (516+ words) July 25, 2026 (Readings on USCCB website) Mass Propers for the Feast of St. James the Apostle: Entrance Antiphon, Cf. Mt 4:18, 21: As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother mending their…...