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USCCB committee chairman: Increase funding for EPA, Department of the Interior (USCCB)
Posted on 05/27/2026 06:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
In a recent letter to leaders and ranking members of the House and Senate appropriations committees, Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, also asked that “funding allocation be faithful to the mission and goal of these agencies.”
“Adequate funding for EPA and DOI is necessary for our nation to safeguard our God-given, life sustaining natural resources such as water, air, lands, and wildlife,” Archbishop Fabre added. “Congress should take care to ensure that these funds address environmental risks to God’s creation, especially for the most vulnerable amongst us.”
Scotland abortion numbers highest on record (Right to Life UK)
Posted on 05/27/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
In 2025, 42% of abortions were repeat abortions.
Prelate discusses restrictions on Church under Brunei's Islamic monarchy (Fides)
Posted on 05/27/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Father Robert Leong Soon Choi said that “we have neither nuns nor religious, and there can be no missionaries, because this is not permitted by the government, which only allows local priests.” Under these conditions, there are three priests and three Catholic churches in the Southeast Asian nation.
“The government, however, wishes to show, in a certain way, that it is open and welcoming and that it allows the Catholic community to live within the state,” he continued. Nonetheless, “we cannot expand or evangelize. We cannot build new churches or expand existing ones.”
“The faithful are diligent, and Sunday Mass, religious holidays, and pastoral activities always attract large crowds,” he added. “Our community is small, and it lives its faith with simplicity and serenity, to the extent permitted by the constitutional order, and with a vibrant faith.”
May. 27 Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop; <em>Ember Wednesday</em>, Opt. Mem.
Posted on 05/27/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)
SSPX announces names of priests who will be ordained bishops (Society of St. Pius X)
Posted on 05/26/2026 23:05 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
They are Father Pascal Schreiber, 53; Father Michael Goldade, 45; Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, 42; and Father Marc Hanappier, 36.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently warned the Society that consecrating bishops without a papal mandate entails an automatic excommunication under canon law.
Iranian convert to Catholicism sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison (World )
Posted on 05/26/2026 23:05 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Ghazal Marzban, 41, was charged with propaganda against Islam. She had previously received 74 lashes for taking part in an anti-government protest, according to the report.
Man vandalizes, sets fire at Missouri Catholic school (KYTV)
Posted on 05/26/2026 23:05 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The incident at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Springfield is one of over 400 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States since 2020.
US Bishops Praise Leo’s Encyclical on AI, Echo Concern for Human Dignity, Common Good
Posted on 05/26/2026 22:27 PM (The Daily Register)
Vice President Vance: ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Is ‘Profound’
Posted on 05/26/2026 22:17 PM (The Daily Register)
VP Vance calls Pope Leo's AI warnings 'profound' (NBC News)
Posted on 05/26/2026 22:05 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“What I read of it sounds very profound, and the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader of the Church,” he said in an interview with NBC News. “The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?”
“You have to kind of rethink the entire Catholic social teaching in light of the new world that we live in,” the vice president added. “And I think that’s exactly what the Pope is trying to do. So I’m glad that he did it.”
In contrast, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum criticized the encyclical: he said that “I didn’t know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being Pope.”