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undefined The body, blood, soul, divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is processed through the streets of Manhattan on Oct. 13, 2026 for Napa Institute's Eucharistic Procession. Beneath the billboards and beside the rush-hour traffic, thousands follow Christ in the Blessed Sacrament during the Napa Institute’s 6th annual New York procession ... read more

GBOKA, Nigeria — The Catholic Diocese of Gboko in Nigeria has suspended operations at three schools, a parish, and a hospital amid persistent insecurity in the area, expressing regret that the unavoidable suspension will affect communities.The institutions listed in a pastoral letter and decree issued Oct. 12, include St. Winifred Secondary School, St. Winifred Nursery ... read more

A 19th-century engraving by Albert Henry Payne of the Strait of Messina, the site associated with Scylla and Charybdis. (Image: WIkipedia) In Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, the goddess Circe prepares Odysseus for his trip between Scylla and Charybdis, two monsters dwelling on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina, dividing Sicily ... read more

Vatican City – Emotion was palpable among those attending Mass celebrated this morning in St Peter’s Square, as their thoughts turned to Pope Leo XIV, who underwent surgery yesterday at the Gemelli Hospital.According to the program, the Mass was to be celebrated by the Pope, marking the conclusion of a gathering held at the Vatican ... read more

Adigrat – Nearly a month has passed since fighting resumed in Ethiopia, where an alliance of rebel groups led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has launched a new offensive, reigniting a conflict that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives between 2020 and 2022.Almost four years after the Pretoria peace agreement was signed in November ... read more

Abuja – St Winifred Secondary School, also known as St Winifred Girls’ Secondary School; St Winifred Nursery and Primary School; St Thomas Hospital, which includes the Salus Mind Care Centre and the hospital chaplaincy service; and St Winifred Parish. These are the four facilities run by the Diocese of Gboko in Benue State, in north-central ... read more

Calcutta – “We express our solidarity with the faithful of the Diocese of Krishnanagar, the Archdiocese of Calcutta and all Christian communities in West Bengal. We stand with the Santhal Christian community, whose right to worship in their own language is a constitutional right that must be protected.”This is the statement issued to Fides News ... read more

by Paolo AffatatoKorneewka – In a small village in northern Kazakhstan, a school continues to invest in the future: the St Lawrence School in Korneewka, an educational project launched thirty years ago on the initiative of a German priest and which has grown into a point of reference for more than 200 students. Here, education ... read more

Algiers – “The Lord took me by the hand and I followed him blindly.” With these words, which capture the essence of a life entirely devoted to the Gospel, Diego Sarrió Cucarella, Bishop of Laghouat-Ghardaïa, has published a new and moving pastoral letter entitled Marcher à la suite du Christ .Issued in the heart of ... read more

The University of Dayton announced that Darlene Weaver, the university’s provost and executive vice president, will serve as the Ohio university’s 20th president.Weaver’s appointment makes her the first woman president in the universityʼs history, according to an Oct. 12 press release. She succeeds University of Dayton President Eric Spina and is set to begin the ... read more

The University of Dayton announced its first woman president, while Catholic high schools in Cleveland and Omaha launched career development programs in this week’s roundup of Catholic education news. Darlene Weaver was named the University of Dayton’s 20th president, the first woman to serve in that role, on Oct. 12, ... read more

undefined An image of Fulton Sheen from his television show appears in a TV-shaped frame on an easel in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Oct. 1, 2026. A REGISTER EXPLAINER ... read more

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas last week asking whether the agency “is reviewing all relevant data” in the mifepristone safety study it has undertaken.Hawley questioned whether the study is accurately measuring risks to women of the abortion drug, which since 2021 has ... read more

The happiest husbands and wives are churchgoing Catholics, according to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies. “Couples who embrace classic Catholic teachings about marital permanence and openness to life are most likely to be happily married,” said Brad Wilcox, a coauthor of the report. Although Catholic weddings have fallen sharply in ... read more

The Archdiocese of Glasgow, Scotland, announced the closing of 24 churches. “Only one of our priests is under the age of 45, most are over the age of 60,” said Archbishop William Nolan. “Thank goodness we have foreign priests and religious willing to serve in the Archdiocese, otherwise the situation would be even ... read more