Catholic News

• Vietnam's VP meets with Pope (Rome Reports)
  The vice president of Vietnam, Võ Thị Ánh Xuân, met with Pope Leo XIV on June 30. Following the audience, Xuân met with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations. “Warm appreciation was expressed for the positive developments in the relations between the Holy See and Vietnam […]
• 'Beauty is an antidote to cynicism,' Cardinal Parolin says at world's fair (Vatican News)
  Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, traveled to Osaka, Japan, to speak at the world’s fair, Expo 2025. In an address delivered on the national day of the Holy See, which has an exhibition there, the prelate said that beauty “becomes an antidote to cynicism, a universal language that unites individuals […]
• Weighing in on federal budget, bishops' pro-life chairman welcomes defunding of abortion, laments IVF (USCCB)
  In a recent letter to leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities weighed in on budgetary priorities. “We are profoundly grateful to the House of Representatives for working together to defund the abortion industry in the reconciliation bill,” said Bishop Daniel Thomas of Toledo, […]
• Papal prayer for Central African school tragedy victims (Vatican News)
  At the conclusion of his June 29 Angelus address, Pope Leo XIV offered prayers following the death of dozens of students in a stampede in the Central African Republic. “I offer the assurance of my prayers for the Barthélémy Boganda High School community in Bangui, Central African Republic, which is in mourning following the tragic […]