Catholic News

• CWN closed for feast of the Immaculate Conception (CWN)
  The offices of CWN are closed on Monday, December 8, so that our staff can celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• USCCB: Black Catholic young adults are concerned about gerontocracy, 'LGBTQ+ issues' (USCCB)
  The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published “Advancing the Needs of Black Catholic Young Adults,” a 16-page report that resulted from listening sessions with black Catholic young adults. The report, posted on the US bishops’ website on December 3, identifies ten “issues within the national Catholic Church” and ten “issues within the black […]
• 'Rethink trade,' Holy See urges UN trade organization (Holy See Mission)
  Addressing a recent meeting of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva called for a rethinking of international trade. After discussing international financial debt, “the concept of ‘ecological debt,’” and the digital divide, the Holy See mission stated: In […]
• Vatican foreign minister prods European security organization on peace, religious freedom (Vatican News)
  Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, called on the leaders of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to work to foster peace in Ukraine. In his remarks, made yesterday in Vienna, Archbishop Gallagher “welcomed OSCE guidance on combating hate crimes against Christians and […]