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A high school camper venerates the Eucharist at Wednesday night adoration in 2024 at the Damascus main campus, Centerburg, Ohio.

Damascus summer camps celebrate 25 years of bringing youth to Christ

Jul 13, 2025

Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, Damascus summer camps has grown from 63 campers in a parish-based effort to 7,000 campers across multiple locations.

French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre takes part in a demonstration on May 6, 1994.

French bishops reveal 12 new abuse allegations against Abbé Pierre

Jul 12, 2025

The famed French priest has already been accused by several dozen people of inflicting abuse over the course of several decades.

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As breastfeeding groups begin admitting men, advocates launch new women-only effort

Jul 12, 2025

La Leche League was founded in 1956 by seven Catholic women in Illinois who named the group after the nursing Madonna.

Friar Clodovis Boff belongs to the Order of the Servants of Mary.

Former liberation theology leader calls on Latin American bishops to focus on Christ

Jul 12, 2025

"When will you give us good news about God, Christ, and his Spirit? About grace and salvation? About conversion of heart and meditating on the Word?" the friar said.

Idaho State Capitol building, Boise.

10 years after Obergefell, state legislators fight uphill battle against same-sex marriage

Jul 12, 2025

In 2025, lawmakers in several states introduced resolutions that urged the Supreme Court to overturn the 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which established same-sex civil marriage nationwide. 

A view from an upper window of Sacra di San Michele, Italy, July 2025.

PHOTOS: Invisible ‘sword’ of St. Michael guides pilgrims to these 7 sacred sites

Jul 12, 2025

“St. Michael’s Sword” is a line that follows the locations of seven sanctuaries dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel from Ireland to Jerusalem.

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Flight attendant fired over expressing Catholic beliefs can proceed with lawsuit

Jul 11, 2025

Ruben Sanchez filed the lawsuit in January of 2025 against United Airlines and the union he belonged to while working for the airline, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.

St. Joseph Cathedral, Buffalo

New York Supreme Court halts payments to Buffalo abuse fund amid parish merger dispute

Jul 11, 2025

A group of Buffalo parishes object to the diocese’s requirement that they pay huge portions of cash into the diocese’s $150 million clergy abuse settlement.

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Father Bashar Fawadleh, Latin rite pastor of Taybeh, with children from his community.

Christian village in Palestine holding out under attacks by Israeli settlers

Jul 11, 2025

The small, entirely Christian village of Taybeh is suffering severe attacks by Israeli settlers.

Bishop John Kiplimo Lelei, who has been serving as an uuxiliary bishop of the Eldoret diocese in Kenya, has been appointed the first bishop of the new Kapsabet Diocese.

New diocese erected in Kenya, pope appoints its first bishop 

Jul 11, 2025

Pope Leo XIV has erected a new Catholic diocese in Kenya — the Diocese of Kapsabet — and appointed Bishop John Kiplimo Lelei to be its first bishop.

Malawi is preparing for its first Eucharistic Congress. Other countries in Africa have hosted such congresses —Madagascar  held its third National Eucharistic Congress Aug. 23-26, 2024,

Malawi getting ready for first-ever Eucharistic Congress 

Jul 11, 2025

Here’s a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed.

Farm workers.

Bishop goes to bat for migrant farm workers as administration mulls enforcement, visa changes

Jul 11, 2025

As the Trump administration grapples with potentially conflicting immigration enforcement and economic policy goals, Bishop Brendan Cahill of Texas is raising his voice on behalf of migrant farm workers.

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