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From Rerum Novarum to Today: Pope Leo XIV Prepares to Add His Voice to the Church’s Social Teaching
Posted on 05/12/2026 13:45 PM (The Daily Register)
My Camino: I Spent 5 Days in Prayer and Reflection
Posted on 05/12/2026 13:04 PM (The Daily Register)
Piarist fathers demand Cuban regime return their cloister and school (EWTN News)
Posted on 05/12/2026 06:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“Nationalized in 1961, state ownership brought only neglect and now, destruction,” the Piarists said in a statement on the buildings’ current condition.
Vatican dicastery announces Catholic Response for Emergencies (Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The alliance is organized by Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies, and the International Catholic Migration Commission. Representatives of eight Catholic organizations serve on CR4E’s steering committee.
Vatican bank posts best returns in a decade (Pillar)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“For the financial year 2025, the bank posted net income of 51 million euros [$59.9 million]—a 55 percent increase from the previous year’s 32 million euro [$37.6 million] profit, and the strongest result since 2015,” The Pillar reported.
Courage apostolate's leader expands criticism of Synod report (National Catholic Register)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Father Brian Gannon, Courage International’s executive director, told the National Catholic Register that the Synod report’s “misrepresentation of Courage actually wounds members of Courage and projects an erroneous image of Courage that thus causes injury to the pastoral outreach of Holy Mother Church.”
The report “needs to be dispatched and a new statement adopted to more clearly and lovingly embrace the Church’s teaching on human sexuality and the call for all to holy chastity,” Father Gannon continued.
“We do respectfully ask the hierarchy to assertively label it [the report] as it is: a non-authoritative summary of an incomplete inquiry into this very sensitive and challenging issue for so many families,” he added.
Priest leaves West Bank after Israel refuses to renew residency permit (IMEMC News)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The decision sparked outrage among Palestinian Christians, the International Middle East Media Center reported. Father Salman celebrated his last Mass in Beit Sahour on May 10.
Theme of Vatican's annual message to Buddhists: 'an unarmed and disarming peace' (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The message, entitled “Buddhists and Christians for an ‘Unarmed and Disarming’ Peace,” was dated May 1 and released on May 11.
“To foster an unarmed and disarming peace also means nurturing its deepest sources: prayer, contemplation, and inner transformation,” the dicastery’s prefect and secretary wrote. “It is a peace lived daily—in gestures of kindness, in patience, in the refusal of hatred and vengeance, and in the courage to hope.”
Supreme Court again extends mail delivery of abortion pill (CBS News)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
On May 4, the Court granted a one-week stay on a federal appeals court decision that temporarily halted the delivery by mail of mifepristone.
US ordinariate bishop named administrator of Australian ordinariate (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 05/12/2026 05:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Bishop Lopes will thus govern, at least temporarily, two of the Church’s three personal ordinariates of former Anglicans. The other ordinariate is located in England.
Bishop Lopes succeeds Archbishop Anthony Randazzo, now prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, as apostolic administrator of the Australian ordinariate.