Saint Joseph Catholic Church

The Maine House of Representatives, in a party-line vote, voted to censure Rep. Laurel Libby after she criticized a state girls’ sports victory by a boy who identified as a girl. The house speaker, Rep. Ryan Fecteau, took the further step of preventing Rep. Libby from voting or speaking on the House floor.

The dicastery’s press release paid tribute to “the legacy of His Holiness Maha Ghosananda.” Preah Maha Ghosananda (1913-2007), a Buddhist monk, was known as the “Gandhi of Cambodia.”

Pope Leo XIV received President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova of North Macedonia in a May 26 audience.

Pope Leo XIV received Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the recipient of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, in a May 26 audience.

“Mary can share the sufferings of her children because she is, herself, a suffering mother,” Cardinal Grech preached in Luxembourg on May 25. “We are living examples of wounded people, healed by the Lord, who still bear and never deny the traces of our wounds and fragilities. This is what being pilgrims of hope truly means: we walk with the wounded people because we are ourselves the wounded people.”

“How important it is that each and every baptized person feel himself or herself to be called by God to be a sign of hope in the world today,” Pope Leo said at the conclusion of the Mass, at which Cardinal Peter Turkson presided.

Pope Leo also spoke of “the great witness that you are all giving and that the continent of Africa gives to the whole world.”

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, hailed Jordan as a “beacon of peace, coexistence, and prosperity” in an independence day message to King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah.