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Pope Leo's childhood home designated a historic landmark (Our Sunday Visitor)
Posted on 12/4/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
An official of the town of 21,000, located just south of Chicago, said that the designation opens “the door for federal and state funding opportunities tied to historic preservation, tourism development, and community revitalization.”
USCCB backs change from 'gender' to 'sex' in Trump administration's refugee forms (USCCB)
Posted on 12/4/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Citing the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 2024 document Dignitas Infinita, as well as the 2019 Vatican document Male and Female He Created Them, attorneys for the USCCB said that “the proposal reflects a true anthropology that is grounded in the biological sexual identity that is either male or female, an anthropology that promotes human flourishing.”
Alabama vicar general laicized followed allegation (Birmingham Free Press)
Posted on 12/4/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Sullivan began a leave of absence last summer following the publication of a report that he carried on a sexual relationship with a young woman beginning when she was 17.
The woman “detailed years of sexual encounters, travel, financial support and a nondisclosure agreement for $273,000,” according to a local media report. Bishop Steven Raica said that “a diocesan financial review, initiated at my request due to the significant payments alleged to have been made by then-Father Sullivan, was recently completed and found no link between the allegations and any diocesan, parish, or school funds.”
Chapel in Italy's busiest train station desecrated (OIDAC Europe)
Posted on 12/4/2025 05:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“The closure deprived commuters, workers and vulnerable individuals of a modest spiritual refuge,” noted the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe.
Papal visit has awakened Turkish Catholics from their slumber, prelate says (AsiaNews)
Posted on 12/4/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro told AsiaNews that Pope Leo’s “powerful words, his message of peace, and his testimony of faith have rekindled hope in our communities. It was wonderful to see people’s enthusiasm, both in the preparation of the events and in their execution.”
“All of this creates a desire to start over and has awakened and reawakened our community from a certain torpor into which it had fallen, also generating considerable interest in the Christian message outside of the ecclesial context,” Bishop Palinuro said. In a nation that is 98% Muslim, “we could say that this visit has certainly had a positive impact on evangelization, on bearing witness to the Gospel message.”
Archbishop dismisses claims of persecution of Christians in Nigeria (Fides)
Posted on 12/4/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Addressing a gathering of the Knights of St. Mulumba, Archbishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto asked:
If you are a Christian in Nigeria and you say you are persecuted, my question is: how? At least 80% of educated Nigerians are Christians, and up to 85% of the Nigerian economy is controlled by Christians. With such figures, how can anyone say Christians are being persecuted?
Referring to reports on the scope of Christian persecution, he added, “They are saying that 1,200 churches are burnt in Nigeria every year, and I ask myself, in which Nigeria? Interestingly, nobody approached the Catholic Church to get accurate data.”
Holy See renews call for immediate end to war in Ukraine (Holy See Mission)
Posted on 12/4/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Speaking yesterday at a special session of the UN General Assembly, Msgr. Robert D. Murphy, chargé d’affaires of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, said that “the Holy See renews its appeal for an immediate ceasefire, which will pave the way for sincere and courageous dialogue.”
He added, “The Holy See calls upon all nations gathered here to reject passivity and provide tangible support for any initiative that could lead to genuine negotiations and lasting peace.”
Ukrainian Catholic leader calls for fervent prayer, fasting for peace (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
Posted on 12/4/2025 03:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk’s call to prayer and fasting followed a decision of the church’s Synod of Bishops. Each of the church’s eparchies in Ukraine has a different designated day of prayer and fasting.
Major Archbishop Shevchuk said, “We see how various events of this full-scale war are unfolding before our eyes, and we ask ourselves: what should our response be? Let our response, as Christians who are ready for spiritual struggle, be prayer and fasting. Make this sacrifice for Ukraine.”
Caritas disappointed in result of UN climate change conference (Caritas Internationalis)
Posted on 12/4/2025 03:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“COP30 closed in Belém on 22 November with a fragile compromise that disappointed many climate-vulnerable nations,” Caritas said in a statement issued yesterday. “The summit ended ‘with a whimper’: progress on adaptation and just transition offered thin silver linings, while the failure to agree [to] a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap left a glaring hole at the heart of the deal.”
Dec. 4 Thursday of the First Week of Advent; Opt. Mem. of St. John Damascene, Priest and Doctor, Weekday
Posted on 12/4/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)