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Vatican releases Pope's Holy Week, Easter schedule (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 03/9/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The announcement, made March 7, confirmed an earlier announcement by the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household that Pope Leo will celebrate the Holy Thursday evening Mass in the Lateran Basilica, as was customary before the pontificate of Pope Francis.
Cardinal Sako: Iraq's Christians are 'very worried' about the Iran war (Vatican News)
Posted on 03/9/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“No one knows where this war will lead,” Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako said in an interview with Vatican News. “We are afraid because we are neighbors with Iran, and many Iraqis are Shiite. There is a double concern.”
“We Christians are very worried, because if they start attacking the Nineveh Plains, where there are 50,000 Christians, these people will leave their homes—and this time, they will not return,” he said.
Lithuanian PM meets with Pontiff, thanks him for support for Ukraine's freedom (CWN)
Posted on 03/9/2026 05:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Prime Minister Inga RuginienÄ— of Lithuania met with Pope Leo XIV and thanked him for his support for Ukraine.
Pray to Jesus and invite others to the parish, Pope tells groups at Roman parish (CWN)
Posted on 03/9/2026 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
During a visit to the Church of Saint Maria della Presentazione in Rome, Pope Leo spoke with youth, with the sick and elderly, and with parish council members.
Pope Leo: Encounter Christ as the Samaritan woman did (CWN)
Posted on 03/9/2026 04:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Church of Saint Maria della Presentazione in Rome (video) and encouraged the faithful to review their relationship with God this Lent in light of Christ’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:5-42).
Cardinal Parolin's personal secretary becomes nuncio (Vatican News)
Posted on 03/9/2026 03:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
A native of Burkina Faso, Father Relwendé Kisito Ouédraogo was ordained to the priesthood in 2000 and began to work in the Secretariat of State in 2010. Last month, Pope Leo XIV appointed him apostolic nuncio to two nations, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
The nuncio’s mission, Cardinal Parolin preached, is to “bring truth and light, peace and unity amid the darkness of sin, division, and falsehood.” The episcopal ordination Mass took place on March 7 at the Marian shrine and basilica in Yagma.
Pope pays tribute to vocations of military chaplain, Christian soldier (Dicastery for Communication)
Posted on 03/9/2026 03:03 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“The action of the Military Chaplain is often carried out in silence, in places of peace and in those of conflict, in military bases and in operational contexts, in chapels and in field tents,” Pope Leo said March 7, in an audience in Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. “It is there that the care of the Lord’s flock is manifested through the witness of life, the proclamation of the Gospel, the celebration of the Eucharist and in the Sacraments, patient listening and spiritual accompaniment.”
Turning to the mission of the Christian soldier, the Pope added:
Defending the weak, protecting peaceful coexistence, intervening in disasters, operating in international missions to preserve peace and restore order. All this cannot be reduced to a mere profession: it is a vocation, a response to a call that challenges the conscience. The soldier’s identity is forged by generosity, a spirit of service, high aspirations and deep feelings.
But these values require a foundation, a gift of Grace capable of fostering charity to the point of total self-sacrifice. It is therefore necessary to inspire the codes, norms and missions of military life with the lifeblood of the Gospel so that, in the service of security and peace, the common good of peoples is always the first priority.
Mar. 9 Monday of the Third Week of Lent; Opt. Mem. of St. Frances of Rome, Religious, Opt. Mem.
Posted on 03/9/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)
Pope Leo XIV Warns of Wider Middle East Conflict
Posted on 03/8/2026 16:09 PM (The Daily Register)