Catholic News

• Vatican approves patron saints, ember days for 3 Arab nations (CWN)
  The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved a new liturgical calendar for the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, whose clergy minister to the faithful in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen.
• Chicago priest placed on leave for 3rd time (Chicago Tribune)
  Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago placed an archdiocesan priest on leave for the third time since 2020. Father David Ryan, ordained in 1979, was accused in 2020 of abusing a minor and reinstated in 2021. Citing “additional information,” Cardinal Cupich soon suspended Father Ryan again; the priest was again reinstated in 2023 after the accuser […]
• European Catholic, Orthodox prelates call for peace with creation (CCEE)
  The presidents of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) and Conference of European Churches (CEC) issued “Peace with Creation,” a joint statement for the Season of Creation. “As Christian Churches, this is for us a time of prayer and sincere conversion, that gives voice to our profession of faith to the God […]
• Pope names coadjutor bishop for troubled French diocese (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV named Bishop Pierre-Antoine Bozo of Limoges, France, as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of La Rochelle.