The U.K. prime minister has stated that palliative care and social care funding need to be “fixed” so that vulnerable people can have “peace of mind” about the care that they receive towards the end of their life.
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Florida carries out double executions as Catholic bishops call to end death penalty
The Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops previously urged Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Catholic, to stay the two executions.
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Pope Leo to young Catholics: Jesus doesn’t want you to be couch potatoes
The church “needs your holy rebelliousness, your pure energy, and your desire to transform situations of suffering into spaces of hope,” the pope said to youth in a video message.
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Wildfires in Spain force Augustinian nuns to evacuate monastery
In a statement published July 27, the sisters of the Monastery of the Conversion in Sotillo de la Adrada said they were evacuated July 25 and “had no choice but to leave the monastery.”
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Polish suspect in Medjugorje vandalism detained amid calls for prayer, not anger
“We pray for the conversion of the hearts of those who committed this act, that the Lord may touch them with His grace and lead them on the path of goodness,” the Medjugorje parish said in a July 28 statement addressing an act of vandalism.
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Medjugorje shrine targeted in overnight vandalism, altar fire
A security camera video posted on X showed a man pouring a flammable liquid around the altar and igniting a fire.
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Pope Leo appoints two US bishops as members of Vatican’s highest court
The bishops, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Edward M. Lohse of Kalamazoo, Michigan, both hold doctorates in canon law.
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5 years after Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions, traditionalist Catholics reflect on ‘Traditionis Custodes’
Pope Leo will likely not rescind “Traditionis Custodes,” but the motu proprio could die “a death-by-a-thousand-cuts.”
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Pope Leo calls for prayers for just peace in the Holy Land and Middle East
“I continue to follow with deep concern the ongoing and escalating violence in the Holy Land, where, in recent days, many civilians, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, have once again fallen victim,” the pope said.
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Catholic Scouting in the U.S. has a new name—and the same adventurous mission
An interview with Bill Guglielmi, the national chairman of Catholic Scouting America, about the state of scouting today