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Paul Ellis Spain's midfielder #16 Rodri and defender #22 Pau Cubarsi celebrate after their team won the 2026 World Cup football tournament semi-final match between France and Spain at the Dallas Stadium in Arlington on July 14, 2026. COMMENTARY: Five points on what’s wrong with soccer in general and the FIFA World ... read more

Havana – New U.S. sanctions against Cuba are placing additional pressure on a population already grappling with one of the country's most severe economic and social crises in recent decades.On July 13, the U.S. State Department announced new restrictions targeting Cuba's Ministry of Tourism and nine other state entities operating in sectors including foreign trade, ... read more

Monsignor Daniel Víctor Villalobos Ortiz has been appointed the new rector of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City by the primatial archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes.A canon of the basilica and episcopal vicar for the clergy since August 2024, he was named exorcist for the Marian shrine in February of ... read more

Upon announcing the appointment, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar noted that the basilica “holds a privileged place in the life of our local Church and in the hearts of millions of pilgrims.” Monsignor Daniel Víctor Villalobos Ortiz, the new rector of Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica. | Credit: Our Lady of Guadalupe ... read more

Vatican City - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kabale, Uganda, presented by Bishop Callist Rubaramira.The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Bonaventure Bosco Gubazire, M.Afr., until now rector of the St. Martin of Tours Formation House in Ejisu, in Ghana, as bishop of the diocese ... read more

The organization that oversees and represents Catholic schools in the Australian state of New South Wales is the subject of an anti-corruption investigation over campaign contributions to the Liberal Party. “It is alleged the donations were arranged and approved by the Catholic Schools NSW chief executive, Dallas McInerney, to recruit or renew members ... read more

The secretary general of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) signed an agreement with the Organization of American States (OAS) on July 13 to combat drug abuse. Auxiliary Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A., of Cuzco, Peru, said that the “Catholic Church, inspired by its social doctrine, seeks not only to address the structural ... read more

The Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) bestowed its highest honor, the John Courtney Murray Award, on Father Bryan Massingale, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and professor at Fordham University. “I stand before you as both a Black theologian and a publicly gay/queer/same-gender loving one,” Father Massingale said as he received the ... read more

The thriving monastic community in Southern California has named Father John Caronan as its third abbot. St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County, California, has elected a new abbot: Norbertine Father John Caronan is the third abbot to serve the community since its founding in 1961. He succeeds Abbot Eugene Hayes, ... read more

LOS ANGELES — One of the largest Norbertine communities in the world, St. Michaelʼs Abbey in Orange County, California, has elected Father John Caronan as its third abbot since its founding in 1961, succeeding Abbot Eugene Hayes, who led the community for 31 years.Caronan will serve for a 12-year term, overseeing both the pastoral care and ... read more

Mexico City – "It is not the Church that has a mission; rather, it is God's mission that has a Church." This was the central theme of the reflection offered by Father John Kennedy Joseph, SVD, a Divine Word missionary, lecturer at several higher education institutions in Mexico and specialist in ecclesiology and pastoral care, ... read more

On June 26, the Texas State Board of Education adopted reading lists for public schools across the Lone Star State. Apart from the “perhaps unprecedented” (The New York Times’word) fact that it sets a standard body of knowledge for graduates of public schools in one of the largest states in the Union, the Board’s reading ... read more

An Indonesian rebel group is targeting the Catholic Church, according to a report published today by an Australian think tank. The Lowy Institute said that the West Papua National Liberation Army, which operates in Western New Guinea, has attacked a Church-run air service and Catholic schools because of the Church’s collaboration with ... read more

An American living in Scotland said that she was fired from her high school teaching position after she replied to student questions about her views on abortion. “Government guidelines on political impartiality in the classroom do not prohibit the mention of a teacher’s legally protected beliefs, provided there is no attempt to persuade,” said ... read more

The Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page article in its July 14 edition to the ongoing European heat waves. “While June 2026 will be remembered as one of the hottest months on record, the data for July are equally concerning so far,” Davide Dionisi reported in “Nella morsa del caldo” (In ... read more