Catholic News

• Pope Leo appoints new archbishop of Vienna (Vatican Press Office)
  Pope Leo XIV today named Msgr. Josef Grünwidl, 62, as the new archbishop of Vienna, a see whose last ten archbishops have been created cardinals, dating back to 1858. Ordained to the priesthood in 1988, Archbishop-designate Grünwidl was appointed by Pope Francis as the archdiocese’s apostolic administrator in January upon the retirement of Cardinal Christoph […]
• Pushback from some parishioners after Spokane bishop removes priest amid allegations (InvestigateWest)
  Some parishioners have pushed back after the Diocese of Spokane removed a priest from ministry. “Bishop Thomas Daly has taken unusually public steps to disclose the nature of the allegations against Mejía and to brief parishioners on evidence of sexual and financial wrongdoing, a level of transparency rarely seen in the Catholic Church,” InvestigateWest reported. […]
• 9 US bishops call for peaceful, prayerful public witness on behalf of migrants (Diocese of Tucson)
  The archbishops of Denver, Las Vegas, and Santa Fe, joined by six other bishops, called on Catholics to engage in “peaceful and prayerful public witness” on behalf of migrants. The prelates called on “each Catholic” to engage in a series of actions on behalf of migrants, including: “Prepare a Catholic vigil for migrants, following the […]
• Theft, vandalism at 15 churches in German diocese (Domradio.de (German))
  In September, 15 churches in the Diocese of Passau (map) were targets of theft and vandalism, according to the German Catholic radio station Domradio. “We usually have about 15 to 20 burglaries in a whole year, and now we only have 15 cases in the month of September,” said Josef Sonnleitner, the diocesan finance director.