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Pope Leo XIV received the president, vice president, and secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in an August 28 audience. The CBCI has not published a news report on the audience, which comes amid the persecution of Catholics in some parts of the world’s most populous nation. The ... read more

Pope Leo XIV received the president and two vice presidents of the Bishops’ Conference of France in an August 28 audience. The bishops’ conference has not published a news report on the audience, which took place four weeks before the Pontiff’s scheduled apostolic visit to France. ... read more

In a rare but not unprecedented decision, Pope Leo XIV transferred Bishop Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B., who has led the apostolic vicariate of Chaco Paraguayo since 2013, to the Archdiocese of Asunción, where he will serve as an auxiliary bishop. As vicar apostolic, Bishop Escobar served as ordinary of an ecclesiastical circumscription with ... read more

Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, announced the public Masses over which Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to preside in September and October. In addition to the Masses celebrated during the Pontiff’s apostolic journey to France (September 25-28), Pope Leo will celebrate Masses at the Basilica Shrine of the Mother of Good ... read more

The August deaths of two very different people have dominated both traditional and social media. On August 14, 41-year-old Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead in his London home from apparent suicide. On [...] ... read more

Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. | (Credit: howtogoto/Shutterstock) The Latin Mass and traditional Vietnamese prayers and catechetical texts written by missionaries prior to the Second Vatican Council are growing in popularity among young Vietnamese Catholics. “Few Catholic communities in Southeast Asia still possess such a rich heritage,” Joseph Christopher Nguyen ... read more

U.S. Supreme Court A student challenges a 2004 Supreme Court decision, the Diocese of Scranton reopens its seminary, and Benedictine College names a speaker for its library dedication in this week’s education roundup. ... read more

The California Capitol in Sacramento A California bill would ban ‘addictive features’ on social media for youth under the age of 16. ... read more

Faith leaders meet with Karen Schneier Dresbach, executive vice president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, and Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, at a meeting Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington, D.C. The gathering focused on strengthening efforts to protect America’s houses of worship, safeguard ... read more

Rescuers use an excavator to transport a flood survivor following flash floods and a landslide disaster in Devghat, in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, on Aug. 26, 2026. Aid workers said entire settlements had been “wiped out.” The bishops urged the international community to ‘work together, as one family’ to provide humanitarian aid. ... read more

Chorbishop Sharbel Maroun, left, joins other bishops and priests during the processional of the priest ordination Mass on May 30, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. Behind him are, second from left, retired Bishop Richard Pates and Auxiliary Bishop Kevin Kenney. Chorbishop Sharbel Maroun has become archbishop ... read more

A student challenges a 2004 Supreme Court decision, the Diocese of Scranton reopens its seminary, and Benedictine College names a speaker for its library dedication in this week’s education roundup. The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. | Credit: Wolfgang Schaller/Shutterstock Representatives for Liberty ... read more

Representatives for Liberty University student Bethany Hall have filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decades-old court decision that has been used to bar Catholic institutions from receiving state funds.The National Legal Foundation, Claybrook LLC, Troutman Pepper Locke, First Liberty Institute, and Alliance Defending Freedom filed the petition on Aug. 11. ... read more

Dave Stotts hosts the new EWTN series ‘The Road Less Traveled.’ ‘The Road Less Traveled’ debuts on Sept. 17 and can be watched for free on EWTN+ and on EWTN.com. ... read more

The Latin Mass and traditional Vietnamese prayers and catechetical texts written by missionaries prior to the Second Vatican Council are growing in popularity among young Vietnamese Catholics.“Few Catholic communities in Southeast Asia still possess such a rich heritage,” Joseph Christopher Nguyen Thien Tuan Hoang, the leader of a Latin Mass community in Vietnam, said in ... read more