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Consecrated Women in Rome Heal With St. Hildegard
Posted on 03/5/2026 13:42 PM (The Daily Register)
Rhode Island attorney general issues abuse report (RI Office of the Attorney General)
Posted on 03/5/2026 06:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The attorney general “identified 75 credibly accused clergy, including 61 Diocesan priests and deacons, 13 religious order members, and one extern priest, who reportedly abused over 300 victims from 1950 to 2011,” according to the report. “Particularly under Bishops Russell McVinney and Louis Gelineau, accused priests were repeatedly returned to ministry, in positions where they had access to, and sexually abused, more children.”
Bishop McVinney was diocesan bishop from 1948 to 1971; Bishop Gelineau, from 1971 to 1997, when he resigned at the age of 69.
Pope 'cannot comment' on Jimmy Lai's imprisonment (EWTN News)
Posted on 03/5/2026 06:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Catholic democracy advocate who was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong.
Church in Singapore reports largest number of converts in a decade (Licas.news)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Southeast Asian nation of 6.1 million (map) is 22% Christian, 15% Muslim, 15% Buddhist, and 5% Hindu, with 36% adhering to Chinese folk religion.
Cardinal Parolin condemns killing of civilians, decries preventive war (Vatican News)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“The Holy See forcefully reiterates its condemnation of every form of involvement of civilians and civilian structures—such as homes, schools, hospitals, and places of worship—in military operations, and asks that the principle of the inviolability of human dignity and the sacredness of life always be protected,” Cardinal Parolin said in an interview with Vatican News.
“If states were to be recognized as having a right to ‘preventive war,’ according to their own criteria and without a supranational legal framework, the whole world would risk being set ablaze,” he added. “This erosion of international law is truly worrying: justice has given way to force; the force of law has been replaced by the law of force, with the conviction that peace can arise only after the enemy has been annihilated.”
Cardinal Cupich, Orthodox prelate meet with Pontiff (@CardinalBCupich)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“This visit reflects a shared commitment to the ongoing work of Christian unity as we commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea,” Cardinal Cupich said in a social media post.
Bishops condemn massacre of civilians in South Sudan (ACI Africa)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, these heinous and senseless killings,” the bishops said. “There can be no justification whatsoever for the murder of innocent civilians. Such acts are an offence against God, the Author of Life, and a grave sin against humanity.”
In its reporting on the massacre, BBC attributed the violence to “a group of unidentified men.”
Bishop of Arab states calls for ceasefire, asks all Christians to pray for peace (Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
In a statement dated March 4 and released today, Bishop Aldo Berardi, OSST, urged “all Christians to pray unceasingly and not grow weary in prayer. As Christians, we proclaim that Christ is our Peace, the principle of reconciliation, and the source of communion.”
Fire destroys Nigerian cathedral (The Sun)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Hindu mob vandalizes, desecrates Catholic church in Odisha (Catholic Connect)
Posted on 03/5/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Odisha (Orissa) (map) was the site of a 2008 anti-Christian pogrom in which an estimated 100 Christians were murdered, and 50,000 fled their homes.