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Chicago Priest Removed After ‘Inappropriate Conversations’ With Children, Women

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Swiss Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig Dies at 79

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Vatican Bank’s Profit Jumps 55.5% Over Previous Year

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Piarist fathers demand Cuban regime return their cloister and school (EWTN News)

Cuban Piarist fathers demanded that the nation’s Communist regime return a cloister and school confiscated in 1961.

“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)

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced today the formation of the Catholic Response for Emergencies (CR4E), an alliance “to address in a coordinated way the humanitarian crises that mark our time.”

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)

The Institute for Works of Religion, colloquially known as the Vatican bank, posted its strongest financial results in a decade.

“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.

Theme of Vatican's annual message to Buddhists: 'an unarmed and disarming peace' (Vatican Press Office)

The Holy See Press Office released the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue’s latest annual message to Buddhists for the festival of Vesak.

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.”

Medjugorje bishop meets with Pope Leo (CWN)

Pope Leo received Bishop Petar Palić of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which Medjugorje is located.

Vienna's new archbishop discusses ecumenism, interreligious dialogue with Pope (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV held his first private audience with Archbishop Josef Grünwidl of Vienna, seven months after his appointment to the see and less than four months after his installation.