Catholic News

• US bishops elect conference secretary, committee chairmen (USCCB)
  At their fall meeting in Baltimore (recap), the US bishops elected Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend as conference secretary. He succeeds Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, who was elected conference president. The bishops also elected six committee chairmen, including Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia as chairman-elect of […]
• Pope warns against 'premature, unlimited, and unsupervised digital access' for the young (Dicastery for Communication)
  Addressing participants in a meeting organized by the Foundation for the Study and Research on Childhood and Adolescence, Pope Leo XIV warned against granting “premature, unlimited, and unsupervised digital access” to young people. “Children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to manipulation through AI algorithms that can influence their decisions and preferences,” Pope Leo said during […]
• Abducted Haitian priest freed (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
  Father Jean Julien Ladouceur, the national director of the Haitian episcopal conference’s Commission for Catholic Education, was freed earlier this week, the Vatican newspaper reported. Father Ladouceur and three of his associates were kidnapped last month. The associates have also been freed.
• Papal message: Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum is relevant today (Dicastery for Communication (Spanish))
  In a message to participants in the 31st Argentine Industrial Conference, Pope Leo XIV paid recalled the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, in which Pope Leo XIII “denounced the unjust conditions of many workers” and emphasized “the right to a just wage, to form associations, and to live with dignity.” “These teachings, born in a time […]