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Cardinal presides over 1st beatification in Vietnam (AFP)

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, presided today at the beatification of Father Trương Bửu Diệp (1897-1946), a priest martyred by Japanese soldiers.

An estimated 70,000 people attended the Mass, which took place in Cà Mau.

5 cardinals, including Cardinals Burke and Müller, reflect on extraordinary consistory (National Catholic Register)

Five cardinals, including Cardinals Raymond Burke and Gerhard Müller, offered their reflections on the recent extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals.

Cardinal Burke said that the cardinals were “certainly grateful” for the consistory: “we’re getting to know each other more, and that’s very great fruit.” He cautioned, however, that the cardinals “didn’t get to the heart of matters in depth,” and the reports of the discussion tables to the Holy Father included only statements to which the cardinals at the table unanimously agreed.

Prelates urge Poland, Ukraine to reject divisive rhetoric (OSV News)

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, joined Ukrainian and Polish cardinals in lamenting mounting tensions between Poland and Ukraine.

Calling for a “disarmament of language on both sides,” the prelates said that “it is even more painful that this is happening at a time when Ukraine continues to experience the horrors of war, and Poland has shown great solidarity with millions of Ukrainian brothers and sisters in recent years.”

Venezuelan cardinals meet with Pontiff, discuss humanitarian needs following earthquakes (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV received two Venezuelan cardinals on July 1, a week after earthquakes caused massive destruction there.

DDF: SSPX bishops, priests excommunicated; SSPX priests' confessions henceforth invalid (CWN)

In a decree issued this morning, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that the Society of Saint Pius X’s four new bishops, along with the prelates who consecrated them, incurred the penalty of automatic excommunication under the Code of Canon Law.

The SSPX Again Says No to the Catholic Church

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Jul. 2 Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

The Roman Martyrology commemorates Sts. Processus and Martinian whose bodies lie in a chapel at St. Peter's in Rome. During the time when Sts. Peter and Paul were prisoners in the Mamertine, legend says that these two jailors together with forty others were converted through the prayers and miracles of the holy apostles. They were baptized with water that suddenly sprang out from a rock. The jailors then wished to help the apostles make their escape. Both died as martyrs for the faith under the Emperor Nero (about 67 A.D.).

Rome’s Ancient Marvels Gave These Engineering Students a Sense of Their Vocation

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