Archive for August 23, 2025

Tyler Duffy, director of evangelization at St. Thomas More Catholic Parish in Centennial, Colorado, outside More Coffee.?w=200&h=150

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

New coffee shop in Archdiocese of Denver aims to be ‘outpost of evangelization’

More Coffee, owned and run by St. Thomas More Catholic Parish in Centennial, Colorado, hopes to become a gathering place... Read more

The streets of Qaraqosh — also known as Baghdeda — in Iraq are filled with joy as residents celebrating Palm Sunday carry olive branches and palm fronds in a grand procession of nearly 20,000 Christians on April 13, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Georgena Habbaba

Iraqi Christians face political challenges as election approaches

More than 30 Christian candidates are running for election this November in Iraq, competing for five seats reserved for them... Read more

St. Pius X.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

St. Pius X’s rebuke of ‘modernism’ rings true today, scholar says

St. Pius X took charge of the Church in the aftermath of the Enlightenment era, which had spurred rationalist and... Read more

Pope Leo XIV views a gift from an attendee at the International Catholic Legislators Network meeting at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic legislators to look to Augustine’s ‘City of God’

The pope called on parliamentarians to ensure that “power is tamed by conscience and law is at the service of... Read more

A view from the entrance of Christ the King Chapel during the solemn blessing Mass on Aug. 17, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Franciscan University celebrates newly renovated Christ the King Chapel

A roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the U.S. Read more

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska in St. Peter's Square, a day before the canonization Mass of St. John Henry Newman, Oct. 12, 2019.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Bishop Conley says Nebraska immigrant detention camp must allow sacraments, pastoral care

The bishop made the announcement after Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen revealed the repurposing of a state work camp to house... Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

Former Maronite priest still presenting himself as a cleric, Denver Archdiocese warns

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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1 in 4 post-abortive women regret abortion decades later, study finds

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

Did leak in England suggest broader shift in Vatican policy on the Latin Mass?

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross

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