Catholic News

• Pontiff announces 2nd World Children's Day (Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life)
  Pope Leo XIV has announced that the Vatican will celebrate its 2nd World Children’s Day on September 25-27, 2026. “On the next World Children’s Day, the Church wishes to once again focus her attention on the world of childhood and the natural environment in which children live and grow up, namely the family,” said the […]
• Austin bishop to lead US bishops' efforts for racial justice, reconciliation (USCCB)
  Bishop Daniel Garcia of Austin, Texas, has been appointed the chairman of the US bishops’ new Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation. “Bishop Garcia is well suited to carry on the work which has begun to convert the hearts of the faithful and the community at large, that the dignity of every […]
• Israeli settlers again attack Palestinian Christian town (The Times of Israel)
  Israeli settlers attacked the predominantly Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank on the night of November 19. The settlers were “filmed slashing the tires of vehicles and hurling stones through shop windows,” The Times of Israel reported. In July, Church leaders protested an earlier attack, describing it as a “direct and intentional threat […]
• Jerusalem cardinal: 'Life has changed very little in Gaza' (Vatican News)
  Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, said in an interview that “ordinary life has changed very little” in Gaza. “The only difference—thanks be to God and to those who secured it—is the end of the blanket bombing,” he continued. “Aid is entering more regularly than before, and more reliably, but still far […]