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Catholic News

• Christian Brothers' province to cease to exist (EWTN News)
  The Christian Brothers Oceania Province announced that it will “inevitably come to an end” as it disburses its assets to sexual abuse victims. The province comprises residences in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. The Christian Brothers began to work in Australia in 1843; the current average age of its members is 80. In […]
• Kentucky bishop ends diocese's sole traditional Latin Mass (Ad Vaticanum)
  Stating that Pope Leo has not modified Traditionis Custodes, the bishop of Owensboro, Kentucky, instructed a priest to cease offering Mass in the extraordinary form at the end of the month. Bishop William Medley asked the priest to “obtain the appropriate Missal of Paul VI in Latin” and added, “I will grant the singular permission […]
• Cardinal Koovakad says concept of fraternity is not utopian idea (Vatican News)
  Speaking at a conference at the Angelicum, Cardinal George Koovakad, the prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, said that brotherhood is not a utopian ideal, even amid “crimes against humanity, wars, violence, conflicts, divisions, discrimination and hatred in various parts of the world.” Cardinal Koovakad called on Europeans to have the “conviction that cultural, […]
• Archbishop Hicks hails ministry of deacons (USCCB)
  The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations praised the ministry of deacons as the bishops’ conference released its annual survey on the permanent diaconate (CWN coverage). “Deacons continue to bring a spirit of renewal and encouragement to the missionary ministry of the Church through their service in the liturgy […]