Catholic News

• Father Martin announces LGBTQ pilgrimage (Outreach)
  Outreach, an organization founded by Father James Martin, S.J., announced a $250 LGBTQ Catholic history pilgrimage, to take place in New York City. “New York is an historic site for LGBTQ Catholics and LGBTQ people in general, and so we’re happy to have our second pilgrimage—following in the footsteps of our pilgrimage to Rome last […]
• Police detain Polish suspect in Medjugorje vandalism (OSV News)
  Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina detained a Polish suspect following vandalism at the Marian pilgrimage site of Medjugorje. A vandal, or vandals, defaced a statute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and set fire to an outdoor altar there. In 2024, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith granted cautious approval to Medjugorje devotions in its […]
• Vatican newspaper: 'Welcome to the age of fire' (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
  L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent article in its July 29 edition to the heat waves and wildfires that Europe has experienced this summer. In “Benvenuti nell’era del fuoco” (Welcome to the age of fire), staff journalist Valerio Palombaro wrote that “alarm is growing regarding the prospect of a near future in which this becomes […]
• Massachusetts bishops speak out against late-term abortion bill (Diocese of Worcester)
  The bishops of Massachusetts issued a statement on state legislation that would remove legal limits on abortions between the 24th week of pregnancy and the moment of birth. “As Catholic bishops we have a moral responsibility to present and uphold Catholic teaching and the sacred God-given dignity of every human life from conception to the […]