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Vatican News

  • Africa Day: Reflecting on energy, inclusivity and a solid future in Africa

    May 25, 2025 - 12:25am

    The conference on “Energy, Youth, and the Future: A Global Perspective on the Sustainable Transition from Africa,” was recently organised by Rome’s Pontifical University of Santa Croce in collaboration with Harambee Africa International on the occasion of Africa Day 2025 which is commemorated worldwide on 25 May 2025.

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  • The Ecological damage is grave - Ghana Bishops sound alarm on illegal mining

    May 24, 2025 - 11:03am

    The Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference has issued a searing indictment of the country’s ecological destruction caused by illegal mining, calling for immediate and systemic intervention to halt what they describe as a “threat of national proportion.”

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  • Russia launches heaviest attack on Kyiv in years

    May 24, 2025 - 9:29am

    Authorities in Ukraine say Russia has launched a large-scale drone and missile strike on Kyiv, injuring 15 people. It is seen as one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the war began over three years ago.

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  • Tenth anniversary of Laudato si

    May 24, 2025 - 8:11am

    On 24 May 2015, the Pope published his social encyclical on the theme of integral ecology, as a new paradigm of justice. “Laudato sì,” with its title taken from the ‘Canticle of the Creatures’ by Saint Francis, became a cornerstone of the Argentinean pope’s magisterium and a reference point for multiple initiatives in favour of the environment. In six chapters, Pope Francis combines concern for the Earth with an appeal for equity, a commitment to society, a call for peace.

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  • Holy See opposes rearmament, calls for respect of humanitarian law

    May 24, 2025 - 4:44am

    Our Editorial Director reflects on the Holy See’s intervention at the UN, drawing on the words of Pope Leo XIV, noting that concrete steps are urgently needed to protect civilians in armed conflicts and to disarm the world.

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Parish Flocknote

  • St. Louis Tornado Diaster Relief

    May 24, 2025 - 3:25pm
    Sunday, May 25, Sixth Sunday of Easter 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass -  9:00 am - 9:50 am Confessions 10:00 am -  11:00 am - 11:50 am Confessions 12:00 Noon Mass  1:00 pm Tour 1:00 pm...
  • St. Louis Tornado Diaster Relief

    May 19, 2025 - 3:42pm
    May 19, 2025   Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The St. Louis region was once again devastated by a tornado this past weekend, and our neighbors in St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis desperately need our support...
  • We have Powee

    May 17, 2025 - 11:46pm
    Just a quick note to let everyone that the Cathedral Basilica has power.  Thank you for your support and patience. Msgr. Breier
  • Update on Cathedral Power

    May 17, 2025 - 2:26pm
    Dear Parishioner and Friends of the Cathedral, The storms that swept through the Central West End on Friday have had a profound impact on our entire community. First and foremost, please keep in your prayers all those affected by...
  • Storm-power

    May 16, 2025 - 9:02pm
    The Cathedral sustained minimal damage in todays storm - just a few roof tiles are missing. However, we are currently without power and have no estimate for when it will be restored. We’ll keep you updated and will do...
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National Catholic Register

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First Things

  • Ralph Lauren, American Patriot

    January 21, 2025 - 5:00am

    On January 4 , President Joe Biden honored nineteen individuals with the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. While one could argue that some were less deserving of the award than others, I believe that one honoree deserved it without question: Ralph Lauren, a living embodiment of the American dream who in turn made America his muse. His designs pay homage to the cowboy, the soldier, the Ivy Leaguer. For Lauren, no aspect of the American character isn’t worth celebrating—a welcome contrast to the self-loathing that usually pervades the upper echelons of society.  

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  • Begging Your Pardon

    January 20, 2025 - 5:00am

    Who attempts to overthrow a government without weapons? Why would the alleged leader of an insurrection authorize military force to protect the government, and why would the alleged insurrection victims countermand that authorization? How do people who listen to speeches about democratic procedures and election integrity in one location transform into enemies of the Constitution after walking a mile and a half to the east? Who believes that interrupting a vote would overturn a government? If there was an attempted insurrection, why would a notoriously creative and aggressive prosecutor fail to find any basis for filing insurrection charges?

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  • To Hell With Notre Dame?

    January 20, 2025 - 5:00am

    I first visited the University of Notre Dame du Lac (to use its proper inflated style) in 2017 as a guest of some friends in the law school. By then I had already hated the place for more or less my entire life. For me, Notre Dame was synonymous with the Roman Catholic Church as I had known her in childhood: dated folk art aesthetics (has anyone ever written about how ugly the buildings are?), the Breaking Bread missalette, the so-called “Celtic” Alleluia, the thought (though not the actual writings) of Fr. Richard McBrien, jolly fat Knights of Columbus in their blue satin jackets, avuncular permanent deacons named Tom, Pat, or, occasionally, Dave. At the age of twenty-seven, I expected to find preserved something of the religious atmosphere of the middle years of John Paul II’s papacy: the quiet half-acknowledged sense of desperation, the all-pervading horror of unbelief that could never be allowed formally to take shape among the grandchildren of European immigrants who had done well for themselves in the professions—perhaps too well.

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  • The Mercurial Bob Dylan

    January 17, 2025 - 5:00am

    There’s a version of Bob Dylan for everyone: small-town boy from Duluth, Minnesota; scrappy folk troubadour of Greenwich Village; electric rock poet who defied expectations at Newport; introspective born-again Christian; Nobel Laureate. As any journalist who has interviewed him will attest, Dylan is an enigma. Capturing the whole man is harder than making a bead of mercury sit still in one’s palm. 

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  • The Theology of Music

    January 17, 2025 - 5:00am

    É lisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was an accomplished pianist and composer when she entered the abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in her early twenties. She devoted her later years to writing theology and an “Essay on the Mystery of Music,” published a decade ago as The Song That I Am , translated by Erik Varden . It’s a brilliant and beautiful essay, but what sets it apart from most explorations of music is its deeply theological character.

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Vatican Daily Bulletin

  • Resignations and Appointments

    May 24, 2025 - 5:06am
    Assignment of the Title of the Suburbicarian Church of Albano

    Resignation and succession of metropolitan archbishop of Huê, Vietnam

    Appointment of special envoy to the liturgical celebrations on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of Saint Anne to the Breton peasant Yvon Nicolazic

     

    Assignment of the Title of the Suburbicarian Church of Albano

    The Holy Father has assigned the Title of the Suburbicarian Church of Albano to His Eminence Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for First Evangelization and the new particular Churches.

     

    Resignation and succession of metropolitan archbishop of Huê, Vietnam

    The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Huê, Vietnam, presented by Archbishop Joseph Nguyên Chi Linh.

    He is succeeded by Archbishop Joseph Đãng Đúc Ngân, until now coadjutor archbishop of the same archdiocese.

     

    Appointment of special envoy to the liturgical celebrations on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of Saint Anne to the Breton peasant Yvon Nicolazic

    The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, as his special envoy to preside over the liturgical celebrations to be held on 25 and 26 July 2025 at the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray, diocese of Vannes, France, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of Saint Anne to the Breton peasant Yvon Nicolazic.

  • Audiences

    May 24, 2025 - 5:05am
    This morning, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience:

    - The Reverend Sr. Raffaella Petrini, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State;

    - His Excellency Mr. Alberto Ospina Carreño, ambassador of Colombia, on his farewell visit;

    - Officials of the Roman Curia and employees of the Holy See, the Governorate of Vatican City State, and the Vicariate of Rome;

    - His Beatitude Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, Lebanon.

  • Audience with the Officials of the Roman Curia, and the Employees of the Holy See, the Governorate of Vatican City State and the Vicariate of Rome

    May 24, 2025 - 5:01am
    This morning, at 10.00, in the Paul VI Hall, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience the officials of the Roman Curia, and the employees of the Holy See, the Governorate of Vatican City State, and the Vicariate of Rome.

    The following is the Pope’s address to those present at the meeting:

     

    Address of the Holy Father

    Thank you! When the applause lasts longer than the address, I will have to make a longer address! So… be careful! Thank you! Thank you!

    In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, peace be with you.

    Dear brothers and sisters!

    I am glad to be able to greet all of you who form the working communities of the Roman Curia, the Governorate and the Vicariate of Rome.

    I greet the Heads of the Dicasteries and the other Superiors, the Office Heads and all the officials, as well as the authorities of Vatican City, the managers and the employees. And I am very happy that many family members are also present, taking advantage of the Saturday.

    This first meeting of ours is certainly not the moment to make keynote speeches, but rather it is an opportunity for me to thank you for the service you carry out, and this service that I have, so to speak, “inherited” from my predecessors. Thank you indeed. Yes, as you know, I arrived only two years ago, when our beloved Pope Francis appointed me as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. Then I left the diocese of Chiclayo, in Peru, and came to work here. What a change! And now, then… What can I say? Only what Simon Peter said to Jesus on Lake Tiberias: “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you” ( Jn 21:17).

    Popes pass, the Curia remains. This applies to every particular Church, for the episcopal Curias. And it also applies to the Curia of the Bishop of Rome. The Curia is the institution that preserves and transmits the historical memory of a Church, of the ministry of its bishops. This is very important. Memory is an essential element in a living organism. It is not only directed to the past, but nourishes the present and guides the future. Without memory, the path is lost, it loses its sense of direction.

    Here, dear friends, is the first thought I would like to share with you: to work in the Roman Curia means to contribute to keeping the memory of the Apostolic See alive, in the vital sense I have just mentioned, so that the Pope’s ministry may be implemented in the best way. And, by analogy, this can also be said of the services of Vatican City State.

    Then, there is another aspect I would like to recall, complementary to that of memory, that is the missionary dimension of the Church and of every institution linked to the Petrine ministry. This was insisted upon a great deal by Pope Francis who, consistently with the project laid out in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium , reformed the Roman Curia from the perspective of evangelization, with the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium . And he did this by following in the footsteps of his predecessors, especially Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II.

    As I think you know, the experience of mission forms part of my life, and not only as a baptized person, as for all us Christians, but because as an Augustinian religious I was a missionary in Peru, and in the midst of the Peruvian people my pastoral vocation matured. I will never be able to thank the Lord enough for this gift! Then, the call to serve the Church here in the Roman Curia was a new mission, which I shared with you during these last two years. And still I continue it and will continue it, as long as God wills, in this service that has been entrusted to me.

    Therefore, I repeat to you what I said in my first greeting, in the evening of 8 May: “Together, we must look for ways to be a missionary Church, a Church that builds bridges and encourages dialogue, a Church ever open to welcoming… with open arms, all those who are in need of our charity, our presence, our readiness to dialogue and our love”. These words were addressed to the Church of Rome. And now I repeat them, thinking of the mission of this Church towards all the Churches and the entire world, of serving communion, unity, in charity and in truth. The Lord gave this task to Peter and his successors, and you all collaborate in different ways in this great task. Each one of you gives your contribution, carrying out your daily work with commitment and also with faith, because faith and prayer are like salt for food; they impart flavour.

    If, then, we must all cooperate in the great cause of unity and love, let us seek to do so first of all with our behaviour in everyday situations, starting also from the work environment. Each person can be a builder of unity with his attitudes towards colleagues, overcoming inevitable misunderstandings with patience, with humility, putting himself in the in the shoes of others, avoiding prejudices, and also with a good dose of humour, as Pope Francis taught us.

    Dear brothers and sisters, thank you again from the bottom of my heart! We are in the month of May: let us invoke the Virgin Mary together, so that she may bless the Roman Curia and Vatican City, and also your families, especially children, the elderly and the sick and suffering.

    Thank you!

    So, let us say together: “Hail Mary…”

    [Blessing]

    Thank you once again, best wishes!

  • Resignations and Appointments

    May 23, 2025 - 5:08am
    Resignation of apostolic nuncio in Portugal

    The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of apostolic nuncio in Portugal presented by Archbishop Ivo Scapolo, titular of Tagaste, availing himself of the possibility offered by Art. 20 § 2 of the Regulations for Pontifical Representations.

  • Audiences

    May 23, 2025 - 5:06am
    This morning, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience:

    - His Excellency Mr. Rosen Dimitrov Zhelyazkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and entourage;

    - Bishop Mariano Crociata of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno, Italy, president of the Commission of Episcopal Conferences of the European Union, with members of the Standing Committee of COMECE;

    - His Eminence Cardinal Lazzaro Heung-sik You, prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy;

    - His Eminence Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue;

    - Archbishop Ignazio Ceffalia, titular of Fiorentino, apostolic nuncio in Belarus, with family members.

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