1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (206+ words) » Continue to this story on Diocese of Fall River CWN Editor's Note: The Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, announced that Msgr. Roger Landry, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, has been restricted from exercising his priestly ministry amid allegations…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (132+ words) » Continue to this story on Chicago Sun-Times CWN Editor's Note: The Archdiocese of Chicago reached a $5.4-million settlement with nine plaintiffs who allege they were abused by priests in the 1970s through 1990s. Four of the priests were not included on the…...

18+ hour, 27+ min ago   (234+ words) In a telegram to Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni of Rome, Pope Leo XIV his heartfelt best wishes on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. “I hope that these celebrations may be an occasion of abundant blessings…...

20+ hour, 27+ min ago   (197+ words) » Continue to this story on Vatican News (Spanish) CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV received the bishops of El Salvador on September 11, in what Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez described as a “very intense, very inspiring, very stimulating, and very cordial…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (228+ words) Pope Leo XIV has declared a Guadalupan Jubilee Year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication on the new Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. The jubilee year begins on October 12 and concludes exactly one year later....

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (210+ words) Prime Minister Xavier Espot of Andorra said that abortion will be legal in the small nation by April, “whether the Holy See likes it or not.” Espot is the head of the principality’s government; the co-princes who serve as heads…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (231+ words) The general secretary of the World Council of Churches, a fellowship of 350 Protestant and Orthodox communities, addressed an ecumenical peace convocation in Seoul and called for healing and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula. “Too many lives continue to be diminished…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (238+ words) A Vatican diplomat emphasized that diminished cognitive capacity does not diminish personhood. “A person is not defined by his or her consciousness, intellect, or abilities,” Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer to the United Nations and other international…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (156+ words) » Continue to this story on OSV News CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Charles Thompson of Indianapolis, Indiana, granted a dispensation from Sunday Mass attendance to “those who have reasonable grounds to fear being detained, separated from their families, or subjected to…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (180+ words) The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka called for an impartial investigation into the Chemmani mass graves. The graves date to 1995-96, when the army retook control of an area held by rebels during the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009). In calling…...