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AFRICA/NIGERIA – Priest kidnapped in Kaduna State
Abuja – Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. Father Emmanuel Ezema was abducted by armed men from the rectory of St. Peter’s Parish in Rumi on December 2, …
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AMERICA/COLOMBIA – Resignation and appointment of vicar apostolic of Leticia
Vatican City – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Leticia, Colombia, presented by Bishop José de Jesús Quintero Díaz.The Holy …
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ASIA/MALAYSIA – From the “Great Pilgrimage of Hope,” insights for the journey and witness of the Churches of Asia
by Gianni Valente Penang – A “consoling” pilgrimage. Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle chose the adjective “consoling” when asked to describe in one word the “Great Pilgrimage of Hope,” the …
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Prelate assumes presidency of Philippine bishops’ conference (CBCP News)
Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa became president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on December 1. In 2024, the Archdiocese of Lipa published a 271-page book on synodality. …
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Finland’s only Catholic bishop appeals for help for his ‘booming’ Church
By Amira Abuzeid Houston, Texas, Dec 4, 2025 / 06:00 am The bishop of Helsinki in Finland, Raimo Goyarrola, the only Catholic bishop in the Nordic country that shares a …
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The Prime Ministers
The Prime Ministers: Canada’s Leaders and the Nation They ShapedJ.D.M. Stewart (Sutherland House, $37.95, 361 pages) The last books on Canada’s prime ministers were published in the 1990s and while …
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The longer Newman
Sarah Stilton, Review: Newman and His Critics by Edward Short (Gracewing, $70 pb, 592 pages)Newman and his Contemporaries by Edward Short (Gracewing, $60 pb, 491 pages)Newman and his Family by Edward Short (Gracewing, …
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Pope Leo’s childhood home designated a historic landmark (Our Sunday Visitor)
The village of Dolton, Illinois, has designated Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home as a historic landmark. An official of the town of 21,000, located just south of Chicago, said that …
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USCCB backs change from ‘gender’ to ‘sex’ in Trump administration’s refugee forms (USCCB)
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has lent its support to the Trump administration’s proposal to replace the word “gender” with the word “sex” in forms published by the …
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Alabama vicar general laicized followed allegation (Birmingham Free Press)
Robert Sullivan—until recently the vicar general, or second-ranking official, of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama—has been dispensed from the obligations of the clerical state at his own request. Sullivan began …