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Buffalo, NY Diocese Assesses Parishes To Raise $80M Contribution For $150M Bankruptcy Settlement
Buffalo, NY Diocese, under Bishop Michael Fisher, to pay $150M (including $80M directly from parishes) as part of a bankruptcy settlement "to bring to a close this painful chapter of our Diocese …Contribution percentages range from 10 percent to 80 percent of each parish’s unrestricted cash with the highest percentage being applied to parishes scheduled to be closed or merged [81 of 160 parishes to be closed or merged] as part of the Road to Renewal.” 
09 Jun 2025
Source: buffalodiocese.org
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Pope Leo Pentecost Homily: "Doors of the Upper Room were opened because the Spirit opens borders"
Pope Leo delivers Open-Borders-Themed Homily for Pentecost. "In a word, at Pentecost, the doors of the Upper Room were opened because the Spirit opens borders." So too, Pope Leo continues, "The Spirit opens borders, first of all, in our hearts ...The Spirit also opens borders in our relationship with others ...overcoming our rigidity, moving beyond our fear of those who are different ...Finally, the Spirit also opens borders between peoples."
08 Jun 2025
Source: vatican.va
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2018 FLASHBACK: Cardinal Dolan Lends Mitre to Rihanna to Wear At Met Gala
2018 FLASHBACK: Rihanna wears Cardinal Dolan's Mitre at Met Gala. Dolan confirms this in interview with Fr. Dave Dwyer who joked, "It nicely matched her dress." Dolan, who attended the Gala said, "I didn’t really see anything sacrilegious" and joked that Rihanna volunteered to do confirmations for the diocese.
06 Jun 2025
Source: vaticanii.com - flashback
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New York Archdiocese Solicits Names and Contact Info for Potential Priest Vocations
Having only two applicants to the seminary in 2024, the New York Archdiocese, under Timothy Cardinal Dolan, implements "Called by Name" -a program inviting parishioners to provide names and contact information for young men ages 15 to 30 that they think might have a vocation to the priesthood.
06 Jun 2025
Source: nypriest.com
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Pope Leo: "Marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman"
Pope Leo Homily for Close of Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly: "Marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total, faithful and fruitful ...This love makes you one flesh and enables you, in the image of God, to bestow the gift of life."
01 Jun 2025
Source: press.vatican.va
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Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Launches "Sing With The Pope" Series
Fr. Robert Mehlhart, OP, President of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, launches Sing with the Pope series to help the faithful learn traditional Catholic hymns and chant. The series was motivated by Pope Leo singing the Regina Caeli in Latin.
24 May 2025
Source: vaticannews.va
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Charlotte Diocese Cancels All Parish Latin Masses. Only Sunday, Holy Day TLMs In Protestant Chapel
Michael Martin, Bishop of Charlotte, NC, cancels all parish Latin Masses effective 8 Jul 2025. On Sundays and Holy Days only, Traditional Latin Masses will be offered at the Freedom Christian Center of Mooresville Chapel - which will use a different, to-be-determined chapel name for the Catholic TLM. All other sacraments must be celebrated at their respective Novus Ordo parishes.
23 May 2025
Source: charlottediocese.org
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Pope Leo Appoints Sr. Merletti Sec of Dicastery for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
Pope Leo XIV appoints Sr. Tiziana Merletti as Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Sr Merletti will serve under Sr. Simona Brambilla, who was appointed by Pope Franics to lead the Dicastery in January -the first woman to lead a Vatican department.
22 May 2025
Source: vaticannews.va
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Pope Leo: "Great desire ...for a united Church ...which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world"
Pope Leo homily for his Inauguration Mass, Saint Peter's Square: "I would like that our first great desire be for a united Church ...which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world ...a small leaven of unity, communion and fraternity within the world."
18 May 2025
Source: vatican.va
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Pope Leo: Christian West Liturgy Needs to Recover Mystery, Avoid Consumerism and Utilitarianism
Pope Leo Addresses Eastern Churches: "We have great need to recover the sense of mystery that remains alive in your liturgies ...to rediscover, especially in the Christian West, a sense of the primacy of God, the importance of mystagogy ...lest they be corrupted by the mentality of consumerism and utilitarianism ...Your traditions of spirituality, ancient yet ever new, are medicinal ...It is vital, then, that you preserve your traditions without attenuating them."
14 May 2025
Source: press.vatican.va
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Bishop Gänswein: "I perceive a certain widespread relief. The season of arbitrariness is over."
Bishop Georg Gänswein, former Prefect of the Papal Household under both Benedict XVI and Francis, comments on election of Pope Leo: "I perceive a certain widespread relief ...We can begin to count on a papacy capable of guaranteeing stability ...I believe that doctrinal clarity is needed now. The confusion of these years must be overcome. And one of the tools to use are the structures that already exist. The institutions of the Church are neither a leprosy nor a threat to the Pope."
12 May 2025
Source: roma.corriere.it
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Leo XIV First Address To Cardinals: His Papal Name Leo Refers to Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum
Leo XIV chosen papal name refers to Leo XIII and his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum which addressed "the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence."
10 May 2025
Source: press.vatican.va
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Cardinal Prevost Elected Pope Taking the Name Leo XIV
Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Age 69, Elected Pope Taking the Name Leo XIV. Born in Chicago, he is the first pope from North America.
08 May 2025
Source: vaticannews.va
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Archbishop Paul Etienne: "Catholic clergy may not violate the seal of confession"
Paul D. Etienne, Archbishop of Seattle, Responds to a New WA State Law Requiring Catholic Priests to Break the Seal of Confession for Cases of Child Abuse: "Catholic clergy may not violate the seal of confession – or they will be excommunicated from the Church."
05 May 2025
Source: wacatholics.org
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Sistine Chapel Prepared to Host 133 Cardinal-Electors for Conclave Beginning 7 May 2025
Of 135 eligible cardinal-electors, 133 will begin the papal election process 7 May 2025; 2 cardinals are too ill to participate. At least 89 cardinals must agree for there to be a successful election of a new pope signaled by white smoke.
05 May 2025
Source: vaticannews.va
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Bishop John Stowe Listens More Closely to LGBTQ+ Catholics Because of Pope Francis
John Stowe, Bishop of Lexington, KY: Pope Francis was inspiration to listen more closely to LGBTQ+ Catholics
29 Apr 2025
Source: newwaysministry.org
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Italian Grand Lodge: Pope Francis had a "profound resonance with the principles of Freemasonry"
Luciano Romoli, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Italy: Pope Francis "embodied the values of brotherhood, humility and the search for a planetary humanism ...our [Freemasonic] Communion intends to pay homage to the vision of Pope Francis, whose work is characterized by a profound resonance with the principles of Freemasonry"
24 Apr 2025
Source: granloggia.it
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German Bishops Pass Resolution About Blessings For Unmarried, Divorced and Gay Couples
German Bishops Conference defines Blessing as an "an act of the Church" to be extended to "couples not married in the Church, divorced and remarried couples, as well as couples of all sexual orientations and gender identities."
23 Apr 2025
Source: dbk.de
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Buffalo Diocese To Pay $150 Million Sex-Abuse Claims As Part Of Chapter 11
Under Bishop Michael Fisher, the Diocese of Buffalo, its parishes and Catholic affiliates will provide $150 million to sex-abuse survivors as terms for a Chapter 11 filing.
22 Apr 2025
Source: wnycatholic.org
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FSSP On Pope Francis Death: We Are Indebted For His Decree Of 11 Feb 2022
FSSP Communication: "We are indebted to him for being a Father toward our Fraternity in particular by his decree of February 11, 2022, clearly reaffirming the practice and charism that the Fraternity has had from its foundation."
21 Apr 2025
Source: fssp.org
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