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What Is ‘Ecclesiastical Communion,’ Which Pope Leo XIV Granted to the New Chaldean Patriarch?

Posted on 04/30/2026 00:38 AM (The Daily Register)

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Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s Effort to Remove Haitian, Syrian Migrants

Posted on 04/30/2026 00:31 AM (The Daily Register)

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National Catholic Leaders Appointed to Board of University of St. Thomas in Houston

Posted on 04/30/2026 00:28 AM (The Daily Register)

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Apr. 30 Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Pius V, Pope and Religious, Opt. Mem.

Posted on 04/30/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Pius V (1504-1572). He joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by applying the decrees of the Council of Trent for the reform of the Church. He played a great part in the return of the clergy to ecclesiastical discipline. Against Islam, which threatened the West, he succeeded in forming a coalition of Christian forces: and by public prayers, organized everywhere at his request, he was instrumental in obtaining the decisive victory of Lepanto in 1571. He died the following year on May 1. We also owe to St. Pius the reformation of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite.