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Vatican News

  • The adventure of the translation of the relics of St Monica

    August 27, 2026 - 10:17am

    The mortal remains of Saint Monica, the mother of St Augustine, were discovered near the church of Sant’Aurea, close to the ruins of Rome’s ancient river port of Ostia, in the 15th century. Transferred to the capital by the Augustinian friars with the permission of Pope Martin V, they are now enshrined in the Roman basilica of St Augustine in Campo Marzio, in a special chapel.

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  • Nepal: Climatologist warns of possibility of future landslides

    August 27, 2026 - 9:55am

    An update on the natural disaster that occurred on the border with Tibet, and the warning climatologist Cat Berro of the Italian Meteorological Society: “Globally, there is a greater likelihood of large-scale landslides occurring, which may affect glaciers. The retreat of glaciers and the thawing of permafrost are leading to a general destabilisation of high-mountain regions.”

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  • Filipino theologians explore how Church should respond to AI

    August 27, 2026 - 7:47am

    As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes the way people work, communicate, learn and make decisions, two Filipino Dominican theologians are inviting the Catholic Church to look beyond the technology itself and ask a deeper question: How can AI be developed and used in ways that safeguard human dignity and serve the common good?

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  • Pope Leo prays for victims of devastating Nepal floods

    August 27, 2026 - 5:30am

    Pope Leo XIV expresses his sorrow over the loss of life caused by catastrophic flash floods in Nepal, assuring those affected of his spiritual closeness and praying for rescuers searching for hundreds of missing people.

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  • Pope: Church must help broken families heal from drug abuse

    August 27, 2026 - 5:20am

    Meeting with the Pontificial Commission for Latin America, Pope Leo XIV encourages the Church in Latin America to accompany families that undergo the pain of substance abuse, violence, or poverty.

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Parish Flocknote

  • Weekly Update

    August 14, 2026 - 2:02pm
    Schedule for August 15-16 Saturday August 15 - Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass - 3:30 - 4:15 pm Holy Hour - concluding with Evening Prayer...
  • Solemnity of the Assumption

    August 13, 2026 - 2:00pm
    Saturday, August 15 -  Solemnity of the Assumption    Not a Holy Day of Obligation this year (2026) 8:00 am Mass - Solemnity of the Assumption 3:30 pm Confessons 5:00 pm Mass - 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Almighty ever-living...
  • Weekly Update

    August 8, 2026 - 11:36am
    Schedule for August 8-9 Saturday August 8 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass - 8:30 am Women of the Cathedral - Boland Hall 11:00 am Wedding 1:30 pm Wedding 3:30 - 4:15 pm Holy Hour - concluding...
  • Weekly Update

    July 19, 2026 - 8:14am
      16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass -  9:00 am - 9:50 am Confessions 10:00 am Mass -  11:00 am - 11:50 am Confessions 12:00 Noon Mass -  1:00 pm Cathedral Tour...
  • Weekly Update

    July 10, 2026 - 2:01pm
    Schedule for July 11-12 Saturday, June 27 7:00 am Cathedral Open for Private Prayer and Devotion 8:00 am Mass - 8:30 am Women of the Cathedral - Boland Hall 11:00 am Wedding 1:30 pm Wedding 3:30 - 4:15 pm Holy Hour - concluding...
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National Catholic Register

  • French Archbishop Buries a Prominent Freemason, Weeks After Italy Denied the Same Rite

    August 27, 2026 - 12:38pm
    Freemason banners in Paris

    A senator close to President Emmanuel Macron received a funeral Mass presided over by Archbishop Antoine Hérouard, prompting questions from French Catholics about the Church’s discipline on Masonic membership.

  • Pope Leo XIV Offers Prayers, Spiritual Closeness to Victims of Devastating Nepal Floods

    August 27, 2026 - 12:22pm
    A resident carries belongings across a road heavily covered in mud following flash floods on Aug. 27, 2026, in Trishuli, Nepal. A sudden flood swept through the Bhote Koshi River basin in northern Rasuwa on Aug. 26, damaging settlements, roads, and energy infrastructure as rescue teams searched for residents and foreign travelers reported out of contact. Hundreds were reported missing as the death toll started to climb.

    Several hundred deaths have been reported so far after a glacial collapse drove catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border.

  • Conference in Rome to Explore How Communicators Can Build Trust in Catholic Journalism

    August 27, 2026 - 12:11pm
    A view of St. Peter’s Basilica from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

    The “Nurturing Unity Through Communication” seminar will take place at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross from Feb. 2–4, 2027.

  • Norway’s Bishops Seek Papal Jubilee for 2030-2031 to Spark Spiritual Renewal in the North

    August 27, 2026 - 12:00pm
    Pål Johannes Nes Bishop Erik Varden speaks during Olsok celebrations marking the feast of St. Olav in Nidaros Cathedral on July 29, 2026.

    The upcoming 2030 millennium commemorates 1,000 years since the pivotal Battle of Stiklestad in 1030, where King Olav Haraldsson was martyred.

  • Parish Pays Tribute to Annunciation Shooting Victims Through Sacred Fresco

    August 27, 2026 - 11:00am
    Mark Balma's fresco of the annunciation pays tribute to victims of the Annunciation school shooting with blue and green ribbons in the lower right corner.

    Through sacred art, a neighboring parish is paying tribute to the Annunciation parish community in Minneapolis after the deadly shooting last year.

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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

  • Audience with participants in the Meeting promoted by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America regarding situations of addiction in Latin America

    August 27, 2026 - 6:57am
    This morning, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience the participants in the meeting promoted by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America regarding situations of addiction in Latin America.

    The following is the address delivered by the Pope to those present during the meeting:

     

    Address of the Holy Father

    In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

    Peace be with you.

    Good morning to you all, and welcome!

    I extend a fraternal greeting to each and every one of you. I would like to express my particular gratitude to the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM) and the Organization of American States (OAS) for having facilitated this meeting, as well as to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the Pontifical Academy for Life.

    I also greet our brothers and sisters from faith-based centres for support, preventive intervention, recovery and integration of young people, who have come from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas; their presence reminds us that suffering and hope know no borders.

    The theme that brings us together is to reflect, from a faith-based perspective, on the problem of drugs and its impact on our young people. Addiction is a complex phenomenon that highlights the failure of a dehumanized world. The suffering of young people calls for comprehensive responses: community-based prevention, scientific care, justice with a human face, and close pastoral support. Our contribution must be directed towards care, presence and the rebuilding of the fabric of the community.

    I am pleased to note how, at this meeting, four bridges converge, each representing a different pathway for collaboration in this field.

    The first bridge is between the Church and international organizations, as no one can tackle the problem of drugs alone. For this reason, the ongoing collaboration between the Organization of American States and the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM) deserves special mention; they coordinate training for faith-based community organizations, build support networks, and have even enabled CELAM to present the Manual on Latin American Pastoral Care for the Support and Prevention of Addictions.

    The second bridge is between science and faith. The Church does not intervene in the issue of drugs with the intention of competing with or taking the place of neuroscience, psychiatry or public health; rather, it seeks to shed light on the issue from the perspective of the Gospel, with a integral understanding of the human person.

    The third bridge is within the Church as she makes her pilgrim journey across the various continents. Over the past few days, people from the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe have come here to share their sorrows, hopes and pastoral enthusiasm.

    The fourth bridge is ecumenical. The Catholic Church and other ecclesial communities, in practising concrete love for those who suffer, find a very eloquent common language rooted in faith to accompany and assist young people in their needs and dreams.

    But allow me to pause for a moment on an institution that cuts across all our work: the family. The family, which the Second Vatican Council rightly called the “domestic church” (cf. Lumen gentium , 11), is the place where life is nurtured, cared for and planned. There is no better defence against drugs than a good family.

    Today, we bear witness to the pain of many broken families, whether due to drug use, violence, the criminal recruitment of a child, poverty or the lack of opportunities that push people to the margins of society. Saint John Paul II asked us to make the Church “the home and the school of communion” (Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte , 43). And Pope Francis reminded us that Jesus wants us to “touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others” (Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium , 270). Herein lies the very heart of the mission you are carrying out: that the Church may be a family, especially embracing those who suffer.

    Finally, I would like to express a wish to you: that the Church may be a family for all those who have been left by the wayside. Like the Good Samaritan, who became a neighbour to the fallen man, let us not pass by; let us build a Church that stops, draws close, is moved with compassion, binds wounds, nourishes and becomes a home.

    Thank you for your work. God bless you.

    I impart the Lord’s blessing to you. May God’s grace be with you all, your families and your work at all times. The work you do in different parts of the world is very important.

    [Blessing]

  • Telegram of the Holy Father, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, for the victims of the floods in Nepal

    August 27, 2026 - 5:17am
    The following is the telegram of condolence sent on behalf of the Holy Father Leo XIV by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, for the victims of the floods in Nepal:

     

    Telegram

    HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV WAS SADDENED TO LEARN OF THE LOSS OF LIFE AND DEVASTATION CAUSED BY THE FLASH FLOODS IN NEPAL. COMMENDING THE SOULS OF THE DECEASED TO THE CLEMENCY OF THE ALMIGHTY, HIS HOLINESS SENDS HEARTFELT SYMPATHIES TO THE BEREAVED, TOGETHER WITH THE ASSURANCE OF HIS SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS TO THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS TRAGEDY. LIKEWISE OFFERING PRAYERS FOR THE EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN THE ONGOING RESCUE EFFORTS, HE INVOKES UPON ALL DIVINE ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION.

    CARDINAL PIETRO PAROLIN SECRETARY OF STATE

  • Resignations and Appointments

    August 27, 2026 - 5:14am
    Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Kottayam of the Syro-Malabars, India

    The Synod of the Major Archiepiscopal Syro-Malabar Church has elected the Reverend Thomas Animoottil, of the clergy of the archeparchy of Kottayam, as auxiliary of the same archeparchy, to which the Holy Father had granted his prior assent, assigning him the titular see of Troina.

    Curriculum vitae

    The Reverend Thomas Animoottil was born on 13 January 1962 in Payyavoor, Kerala, India. After his primary and secondary studies in Payyavoor and his university studies in Mysore, he began his priestly formation at the Saint Stanislaus Minor Seminary of Kottayam.

    He completed his studies in philosophy and theology at Saint Joseph’s Seminary in Mangalore, and was ordained a priest on 13 April 1989. He was sent to Rome to further his studies at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and was awarded a licentiate in canon law in 1993.

    He held the following offices in his archeparchy: parish priest of Pulinjal; secretary to the eparchial bishop; eparchial chancellor; secretary to the Pastoral Council; ecclesiastical adviser to the Catholic Nurses Guild of India ; and vicar forane (or protopresbyter of the deanery) of Uzhavoor and Kaduthuruthy. From 2003 to 2008, he exercised his pastoral ministry in the eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago of the Syro-Malabar Church, United States of America.

    Since 2025, he has served as pro-protosyncellus of the archeparchy of Kottayam.

  • Credential Letters of the Ambassador of Belgium to the Holy See

    August 27, 2026 - 5:14am
    This morning, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience the Ambassador of Belgium to the Holy See, Her Excellency Ms. Caroline Vermeulen, on the occasion of the presentation of her credential letters.

    The following is a brief biography of the new Ambassador:

    Her Excellency Ms. Caroline Vermeulen Ambassador of Belgium to the Holy See

    Her Excellency Ms. Caroline Vermeulen was born on 13 October 1973, and is married with two children.

    She holds a master’s degree in contemporary history from the Université Catholique de Louvain , Louvain-la-Neuve, and from the Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis , Brussels (1991-1995), as well as a master’s degree in European studies from the Collège d’Europe , Bruges (1996).

    She entered the diplomatic service in 1997 and has held the following offices:

    - Attaché, Embassy in Japan (1998)

    - at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1999)

    - Attaché, Permanent Representation to the European Union (1999-2002)

    - First Secretary, Embassy in the Russian Federation (2002-2004)

    - Secretary to Her Majesty Queen Paola, Royal Palace, Brussels (2004-2011)

    - Head of Office in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (2011-2015)

    - Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy in the People’s Republic of China (2015-2019)

    - Director for European External Relations, Directorate-General for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-2022)

    - Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia, Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna (2022.2026)

  • Audiences

    August 27, 2026 - 5:13am
    This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:

    - Her Excellency Ms. Caroline Vermeulen, Ambassador of Belgium, presenting her credential letters;

    - Bishop Lucas Van Looy, emeritus of Ghent, Belgium;

    - Archbishop Tomas Grysa, titular of Rubicon, Apostolic Nuncio in Uganda;

    - Bishop Virgilio do Nascimento Antunes of Coimbra, Portugal, President of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, with members of the Presidency;

    - Archbishop Daniel Colombo of Mendoza, Argentina, President of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, with Bishop Raúl Pizarro Travers, titular of Ausana, auxiliary of San Isidro, secretary general;

    - Participants in the meeting promoted by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America on situations of addiction in Latin America.

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