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Remains of St. Francis to be visible for veneration in Assisi (Vatican News)
Posted on 02/18/2026 05:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Pope Leo has proclaimed a Year of Saint Francis in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death. Vatican News, the news agency of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, reported that the saint’s relics have not previously been exposed.
Cardinal Parolin praises financial giving, organ donation (Vatican News)
Posted on 02/18/2026 04:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Financial giving is “a silent yet immensely powerful language through which men and women express the best of themselves,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on February 17, as he recalled the widow’s mite.
In praising organ donation, Cardinal Parolin said that “human life is relationship and communion; in a donated body there beats a love that does not surrender to death.”
Jerusalem cardinal, in Lenten letter, calls for conversion and reconciliation (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
Posted on 02/18/2026 04:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s brief Lenten letter has five sections: “The Passion of Christ: Path of Conversion and Mercy,” “Prayer: Breath of the Soul,” “Fasting and Charity: Two Wings of the Same Offering,” “The Holy Land: Vocation to Peace and Reconciliation,” and “With our gaze fixed on the Resurrection.”
Holy See declines invitation to join President Trump's Gaza Board of Peace (CWN)
Posted on 02/18/2026 04:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
As expected, the Holy See has declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to join his Board of Peace for Gaza.
Pope, in audience on Vatican II, reflects on the mystery of the Church (CWN)
Posted on 02/18/2026 04:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV spoke this morning on the theme of “the mystery of the Church, sacrament of the union with God, and the unity of all humanity.”
'Still without peace': Vatican newspaper publishes impassioned plea for Gaza (CWN)
Posted on 02/18/2026 03:02 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
L’Osservatore Romano published an impassioned plea for peace in Gaza as the most prominent article in its February 17 edition.
Cardinal Parolin: The Vatican ‘Will Not Participate in Trump’s Board of Peace’
Posted on 02/18/2026 00:02 AM (The Daily Register)
Feb. 18 Ash Wednesday, Commem.
Posted on 02/18/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)
Ahead of US Premiere, EWTN Studios Launches Behind-the-Scenes Series of ‘Bernadette’ Musical
Posted on 02/17/2026 21:56 PM (The Daily Register)
St. Peter’s Basilica Marks 400 Years With Newly Opened Areas and Digital Access
Posted on 02/17/2026 21:52 PM (The Daily Register)