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Vatican announces conference on marriage formation (Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life)
Posted on 04/25/2026 07:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“This initiative stems from the realization that the relationship between marriage, faith and the Church’s mission is now a pastoral and educational issue of particular importance,” the dicastery said. “In a time marked by profound cultural changes, the event aims to provide an opportunity to reflect on how to accompany young people, engaged couples, and married couples, and, at the same time, on how to train ministers and pastoral workers capable of supporting this journey with greater awareness and competence.”
Speakers include Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the dicastery’s prefect; Father Andrea Bozzolo, S.D.B., rector of the Pontifical Salesian University; and Father Fabio Rosini, a professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
Latin Patriarchate condemns Israeli settlers' encroachments on Church land in the West Bank (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
After a meeting with Israeli officials, the Latin Patriarchate, led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M., announced it had filed a complaint about “the attacks against local residents and Patriarchate lands in several locations. Following this complaint, the authorities began the necessary actions, including pursuing those responsible and seizing heavy machinery used for land destruction and damage at the site.”
“Protecting Church endowment properties is a red line,” the Patriarchate said. “It will continue to take all legal and administrative steps needed to protect their sanctity, preserve their Church identity, defend their lawful rights, and continue supporting the local people.”
The Pope has called us to personal responsibility, leading Equatorial Guinea prelate says (Vatican News)
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“The Holy Father has called both the Church and Christians engaged in social life to work for the coming of the Kingdom,” Bishop Juan Domingo-Beka Esono Ayang, C.M.F., of Mongomo said in an interview with the Vatican News podcast Nota Ecclesial. “The future is not something to be awaited passively; it calls for the commitment of each and every one of us.”
Press conference announced for presentation of Holy See's Biennale art exhibit (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 04/25/2026 06:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Biennale, a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place every two years, will begin on May 9 and conclude on November 22. The Dicastery for Culture and Education previously announced that the Holy See’s exhibit will feature works of art inspired by St. Hildegard of Bingen.
Church in Vietnam faces challenges from AI, mass media, bishop says after papal audience (Vatican News)
Posted on 04/25/2026 05:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Auxiliary Bishop Dominic Nguyễn Tuan Anh of Xuân Lộc made his remarks after an April 24 papal audience with Vietnam’s bishops, who were in Rome for their ad limina visit.
“The Vietnamese Church is a family, and in our culture, family is very strong,” the prelate said. “The Church has also been blessed by God’s grace and by the blood of our martyrs ... So we need to unite; we need to unify, and with God’s grace, we can face this challenge in the way of faith, in the way of hope.”
Located in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a Communist nation of 106.7 million (map) that is 48% Buddhist and 10% Christian, with 12% adhering to ethnic religions.
Pope Leo: 'The Church teaches that the death penalty is inadmissible' (CWN)
Posted on 04/25/2026 05:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Citing Pope Francis’s 2018 revision of a paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV said that “the Church teaches that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.’“
When Teaching the Faith Becomes a Crime in Iceland
Posted on 04/25/2026 03:00 AM (The Daily Register)
Pope offers advice to Christians engaged in politics (CWN)
Posted on 04/25/2026 02:04 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Pope Leo XIV received leading members of the European People’s Party today and offered advice to Christians engaged in politics: first and foremost, “rediscovering and embracing the Christian heritage from which you come, while still maintaining the necessary distinction between prophetic religious witness—reserved to the ecclesial community—and Christian witness expressed through concrete political choices.”
Former Attorney General Bill Barr: U.S Military Action Against Iran Meets Criteria for ‘Just War’
Posted on 04/25/2026 01:00 AM (The Daily Register)
Apr. 25 Feast of St. Mark, Evangelist; <em>Major Rogation Day</em>, Feast
Posted on 04/25/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)