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Lenten Traditions You Should Know From Europe and Africa
Posted on 02/21/2026 12:00 PM (The Daily Register)
Priest brutally murdered in DR Congo (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
Posted on 02/21/2026 07:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The body of Father Jules Bontone Nkaa Yulu, “killed shortly after mediating a conflict in a nearby village, was found headless on a road regularly used by locals,” according to the report. “The province of Maï-Ndombe has been plagued by insecurity for over three years due to the activities of the Mobondo militia, in the conflict between the Yaka and Teke communities.”
Pakistani prelate: Lent and Ramadan call Christians, Muslims to interfaith harmony (Fides)
Posted on 02/21/2026 07:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“Churches and mosques should be centers of compassion, peace, and love,” said Archbishop Joseph Arshad of Rawalpindi-Islamabad. The shared practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, he added, are “a powerful testament to the fact that faith is not a source of division but rather a means of mercy, solidarity, and unity.”
Islam is the official religion of the South Asian nation of 257 million (map), the fifth most populous in the world. 95% of Pakistan’s people are Muslim, 2% are Christian, and 1% are Hindu.
Tanzania's Cardinal Pengo dies at 81 (CWN)
Posted on 02/21/2026 07:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, one of Africa’s leading prelates during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, died on February 19 at the age of 81.
Synod establishes commission to propose revisions to Eastern canon law (CWN)
Posted on 02/21/2026 06:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The General Secretariat of the Synod announced the establishment of an Eastern Canonical Commission to propose revisions to the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches in light of the synod on synodality.
4 economists, in Vatican newspaper, reflect on Pope Leo's Dilexi Te (CWN)
Posted on 02/21/2026 05:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Vatican newspaper marked the World Day of Social Justice by publishing four economists’ reflections on Dilexi Te, Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation on love for the poor.
Franciscan friar describes widespread suffering in Gaza, departure of Christians from Bethlehem (CWN)
Posted on 02/21/2026 05:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
A Franciscan friar who oversees 18 schools in the Holy Land described continued widespread suffering in Gaza, four months after the signing of the Gaza peace plan.
Pope fields questions from Roman priests, urges them to avoid AI in preparing homilies (CWN)
Posted on 02/21/2026 05:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Pope Leo XIV fielded questions from four priests of the Diocese of Rome during his February 19 meeting with them in Paul VI Audience Hall. In addressing one of the questions, he urged priests to avoid AI in preparing homilies.
Full Text: Cardinal Dolan on Faith, Politics, Notre Dame, and the Future of NYC
Posted on 02/21/2026 03:39 AM (The Daily Register)
Dialogue Stalled: SSPX and Vatican at Impasse Over July 1 Consecrations
Posted on 02/21/2026 00:18 AM (The Daily Register)