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A Look at the Spiritual Works of Mercy Through the Eyes of Mother Angelica
Posted on 03/10/2026 13:04 PM (The Daily Register)
Aid to the Church in Need Warns Escalating Violence Threatens Survival of Middle East Christians
Posted on 03/10/2026 13:01 PM (The Daily Register)
NBC Poll: Pope Leo XIV Held in Highest Esteem Among Public Personalities
Posted on 03/10/2026 12:57 PM (The Daily Register)
Priest killed by Israeli tank fire in southern Lebanon (OSV News)
Posted on 03/10/2026 06:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Father Pierre al-Rahi, along with other priests, defied an Israeli order to leave Qlayaa and chose instead to remain with his parishioners.
Cardinal McElroy: US entry into war with Iran 'not morally legitimate' (Catholic Standard)
Posted on 03/10/2026 06:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“The criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran,” Cardinal McElroy said on March 9. In addition, “the criterion of right intention is not met in our country’s decision to attack Iran.”
He explained:
One of the most worrying elements of these first days of the war in Iran is that our goals and intentions are absolutely unclear, ranging from the destruction of Iran’s conventional and nuclear weapons potential to the overthrow of its regime to the establishment of a democratic government to unconditional surrender. You cannot satisfy the just war tradition’s criterion of right intention if you do not have a clear intention.
“Finally, our current war effort does not meet Catholic just war teaching because it is far from clear that the benefits of this war will outweigh the harm which will be done,” he said.
San Diego Chaldean bishop pleads not guilty to embezzlement (KGTV-TV)
Posted on 03/10/2026 06:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Bishop Emmanuel Shaleta was arrested on March 5 at San Diego International Airport while attempting to leave the country.
Schedule released for papal visit to Monaco (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 03/10/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The visit to Monaco will take place on Saturday, March 28, the day before Palm Sunday. The Pontiff will spend just under nine hours there.
“The Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion is the religion of the State,” Monaco’s Constitution declares (Article 9), with religious freedom granted to all (Article 23). Located in Western Europe, the principality of 32,000 (map) is 86% Christian (83% Catholic) and 1% Jewish.
Former UN Undersecretary General named to pontifical academy (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 03/10/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Established by Pope St. John Paul II in 1994, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences has the “aim of promoting the study and progress of the social sciences, primarily economics, sociology, law and political science,” according to its statutes. “The Academy, through an appropriate dialogue, thus offers the Church the elements which she can use in the development of her social doctrine, and reflects on the application of that doctrine in contemporary society.”
Members, according to the statutes, are chosen “on the basis of their competencies in the social sciences and of their moral integrity”; they need not be Catholic.
Bishop says churches remain open in UAE, Oman (National Catholic Reporter)
Posted on 03/10/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Bishop Paolo Martinelli, OFM Cap, told the National Catholic Reporter that “there have been several attacks, especially targeting the main cities such as Abu Dhabi and Dubai. However, we must acknowledge that the Emirati defense system has responded effectively, intercepting almost all of them.”
“For this reason, although people are understandably shaken by what is happening in the region, they also feel reassured by the protection provided by the local authorities,” he added. “In general, the life of our communities continues in a regular way, even though some pastoral activities have been adapted to the current circumstances.”
Naples cardinal denounces weapons manufacturers (Il Mattino)
Posted on 03/10/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“To you who do business with the blood of men, to you who count profits while mothers count their children, to you who call ‘strategy’ what the Gospel calls scandal, I address words that are born not from diplomacy, but from the wound,” he wrote in his open letter, published on March 9.
The prelate spoke of a land that “trembles under the steps of the poor, under the cries of children, under the silence of the innocent, under the ferocious noise of the weapons you have built, sold, blessed by your cynicism.”