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Cardinal Pizzaballa receives award from Macron, urges support for Holy Land Christians

Posted on 06/10/2026 21:52 PM (The Daily Register)

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6 Catholics Held for 48 hours after Protesting Use of Paris Church for Contemporary Art Festival

Posted on 06/10/2026 21:38 PM (The Daily Register)

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No, AI Isn’t Conscious. But Saying So Invites Further Discernment

Posted on 06/10/2026 20:38 PM (The Daily Register)

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Papal Nuncio Urges U.S. Bishops to Deepen Communion

Posted on 06/10/2026 20:17 PM (The Daily Register)

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Jun. 10 Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Posted on 06/10/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Landericus, or St. Landry (d. 661), who was the Bishop of Paris from 650 to his death. He is best remembered as the founder of the first hospital in Paris, known as Hotel-Dieu.

Cost of abuse scandal in US soars 82% in single year to $483.5M (CWN)

Posted on 06/9/2026 04:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

The costs of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States soared 82% in the July 2024—June 2025 reporting year, to $483,534,316, according to the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection.

Jun. 9 Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor, Opt. Mem.

Posted on 06/9/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the mysteries of Christ, the Blessed Virgin and the saints. He had a great devotion to Our Lady. He was a commentator on Scripture and a preacher as well as a poet, and has left a considerable number of works, which were translated into other Eastern languages as well as into Greek and Latin. He died in 373. Pope Benedict XV proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 1920.

Jun. 8 Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Posted on 06/8/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Médard (456-545), Bishop of Noyon, France. Legend says that once when he was a child a sudden shower fell, soaking everyone except St. Médard who remained perfectly dry, because an eagle had spread its wings over him. Ever since, Médard was known as "master of rain" or his patronage against bad weather and who to invoke for good weather. In religious art, an eagle shelters Médard from the rain.

Pope addresses Spanish Parliament, urges respect for dignity of every human person (CWN)

Posted on 06/7/2026 23:06 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Pope Leo XIV addressed the Spanish Parliament this morning in the Palacio de las Cortes and urged lawmakers to respect the dignity of every human person in their decisions about the unborn, parental rights, migration, peace, religious freedom, and the seal of Confession.

Be missionaries of the Gospel, Pope tells over 600,000 Spanish young people (CWN)

Posted on 06/7/2026 07:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Pope Leo XIV presided at a prayer vigil with young people last evening in Madrid’s Plaza de Lima (video) and challenged the Catholic youth of Spain to “be missionaries of the Gospel amid the material and spiritual poverty of our time, knowing full well that our faith is a way of life that is lived out in charity.”