July 2025

Pope Leo welcomes visiting students and teachers to an audience in Rome

Catholic Register Staff · July 10, 2025

Pope Leo welcomes visiting students and teachers to an audience in Rome with a message that pilgrimage continues at home with the daily pilgrimage of spiritual discipleship.

The Mustard Seed

Spirit and matter are in delicate balance

Glen Argan · July 10, 2025

The Council of Nicaea in 325, whose 1,700th anniversary the global Church is now marking, was a pivotal moment in Christian history. It was the first ecumenical council, and it addressed a fundamental question: Is Jesus divine, or was he created by the Father and thus subordinate to him? This is the defining question of Christianity.

Culture à la Carte

On the attack to defend Catholicism

Sr. Helena Burns · July 11, 2025

A Catholic and a Protestant walked into a bar…and did a podcast. And guess who was on the defensive? Yup. The Catlick. Why does that always seem to be the case in Catholic-Protestant debates?

Parishes need to launch 'revolution of care' for the elderly, Pope says

Carol Glatz · July 11, 2025

Pope Leo XIV called on every parish and church group or association to become part of a "revolution" of care and gratitude by regularly visiting older people.

AI must have ethical management, regulation protecting human person, Pope Leo says

Carol Glatz · July 11, 2025

Pope Leo XIV urged global leaders and experts to establish a network for the governance of AI and to seek ethical clarity regarding its use.

Kidnapped Nigeria priest who served in Alaska still held captive, sources say

Gina Christian · July 11, 2025

A Nigerian priest who previously served in Alaska remains missing after being captured by Boko Haram operatives in his homeland, OSV News has learned.

Figure of Speech

The Biblical language of justice, care, love

Gerry Turcotte · July 12, 2025

Although French is officially my first language it’s fair to say that with a father who couldn’t speak English and a mother who couldn’t speak French, I grew up functionally bilingual.

Church on the Street

Out of the darkness comes a holy surprise

Dcn. Robert Kinghorn · July 12, 2025

By all worldly accounts much of the ministry of The Church on the Street seems like a total waste of time. However, in my more reflective moments I realize that the answer lies somewhere in the mystery that on the street I am constantly surprised by holiness in the midst of addiction, violence, and poverty.

Naive nuns play squarely into Hamas’ hands

Anna Farrow · July 12, 2025

On May 29, 10 days following a joint statement made by Canada, France and the UK which told Israel it was behaving in a way which righteous countries would not put up with, a communion of Canadian religious sisters wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney to express “gratitude for, and solidarity with” the position.

Cardinal Czerny asks Church to remember seafarers

Christopher Wells · July 14, 2025

Basing his reflection on the insight of Vatican II that whatever is genuinely human resonates in the hearts of Christians, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Cardinal Michael Czerny, assures "all those who work at sea … that they are in the heart of the Church; they are not alone in their demands for justice, dignity and joy."

‘The Spirit helps us in our weakness’: bishops release Jubilee prayer reflection

Canadian Catholic News · July 14, 2025

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has issued a two-page Note on Prayer for the Jubilee of Hope. The note, written by the bishops’ Commission for Doctrine, outlines characteristics and forms of Christian prayer, and concludes by sharing prayer resources, compiled by the bishops’ Ad hoc Committee for the Jubilee.

30 years on, wounds of Srebrenica massacre still felt

Junno Arocho Esteves · July 14, 2025

The wounds inflicted on innocent men, women and children during the Srebrenica massacre, one of the worst atrocities to happen in Europe since World War II, are hardly healed 30 years later.

Caring for others, serving life is the 'supreme law,' Pope Leo says

Carol Glatz · July 14, 2025

Serving life by caring for others is "the supreme law" that comes before all of society's rules, Pope Leo XIV said.

Jesus did not ignore those in need, and neither should Christians, Pope Leo says

Carol Glatz · July 14, 2025

To believe in and follow a loving and compassionate Christ is to allow him to enter one's heart and take on his same feelings, Pope Leo XIV said.

One officer dead, three seminarians kidnapped after attack on Nigerian seminary

OSV News · July 15, 2025

In Nigeria's Edo state, gunmen stormed Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi the night of July 10, killing a security officer and abducting three seminarians, according to Aid to the Church in Need.

Pope Leo visits Italian Carabinieri station, Poor Clares during summer break

Catholic News Service · July 15, 2025

As part of his summer break, Pope Leo XIV visited members of the Italian Carabinieri in Castel Gandolfo and the Poor Clares in nearby Albano Laziale.

Pilgrims of Hope: summer caminos return in Fraser Valley and Whistler

B.C. Catholic · July 16, 2025

Pilgrims will once again take to trails, parks, and parish pathways this summer as two popular pilgrimage series invite Catholics to walk in prayer and fellowship.

New Whistler church enhances area's natural beauty

Luke Mandato · July 16, 2025

Nestled within Whistler, B.C.’s many snow-covered peaks, Our Lady of the Mountains Parish finds itself just months away from the grand opening of its newly renovated church, a multi-million dollar restoration project five years in the making, which is set to embrace the town’s historic alpine atmosphere.

Church of England weighs proposal to place St. Thomas More's skull in shrine for veneration

Simon Caldwell · July 16, 2025

The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.

As excavation begins at Irish maternity home, Catholic experts urge fact-based news reporting

Michael Kelly · July 16, 2025

A full excavation began July 14 at a site near a former mother-and-baby home in the west of Ireland, believed to be the final resting place of up to 800 infants.