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Cardinal Koch: Benedict XVI is my favorite pope (Katholisch.de)
Posted on 12/3/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Kurt Koch, the dicastery’s prefect since 2010, said that “Pope Benedict was a scholar, he focused on the content of the faith. Pope Francis focused more on relationships and encounters. With Pope Leo, it is still too early to say exactly where he will emphasize.”
Cardinal Koch added that when Pope Francis’s spontaneity “went a bit wrong, then of course it was rather difficult—he didn’t always achieve the good goal he wanted to achieve.”
Vatican halves 2024 budget deficit, according to new financial statement (Pillar)
Posted on 12/3/2025 04:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Holy See’s budget as a whole had a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.9M) because of donations and investments.
'We need less Herod, trapped in fear,' Cardinal Tagle tells Asian Catholic leaders (Fides)
Posted on 12/3/2025 03:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Tagle was the keynote speaker at the Great Pilgrimage of Hope, a gathering held in Penang, Malaysia, and organized by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. Ten cardinals, 104 bishops, and some 900 lay leaders took part in the gathering.
Amid fragile truce, 2 million people in Gaza have nothing, parish priest says (Aid to the Church in Need)
Posted on 12/3/2025 03:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The priest told Aid to the Church in Need that “the world should know that there are over two million people here who have nothing and need everything.” The parish continues to house 450 people.
USCCB expresses prayers, solidarity for Nigerian Catholic school kidnapping victims (USCCB)
Posted on 12/3/2025 03:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“This Advent, we offer our prayers for our Nigerian brothers and sisters, in Niger state and elsewhere, who have been violently separated from their loved ones, and who await their return,” Bishop A. Elias Zaidan wrote in his letter to Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna. “Together, we pray for peace, security, and solidarity among all Nigerians, and for the particular care and protection of the nation’s young people.”
Vatican diplomat voices reservations about UN's political declaration on human trafficking (Holy See Mission)
Posted on 12/3/2025 03:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Msgr. Marco Formica, counselor at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, expressed reservations about the document’s references to surrogacy, “sexual and reproductive health-care services,” and gender. The document, the 2025 Political Declaration on the Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, was adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 24.
European bishops' conferences discuss Christian-Muslim dialogue (CCEE)
Posted on 12/3/2025 02:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, M Afr, delivered the keynote address. Themes of the meeting included “Christian-Muslim Relations in Germany” and “Interreligious Dialogue and Youth.”
Nostra Aetate, issued in 1965, is the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.
Italian prelates commemorate 60th anniversary of lifting of 1054 excommunications (Vatican News (Italian))
Posted on 12/3/2025 02:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi (president of the Italian Episcopal Conference), Patriarch Francesco Moraglia of Venice, and Metropolitan Polykarpos (the Greek Orthodox primate of Italy) took part in the commemoration.
Vatican spokesman comments on papal theme: 'disappear so that Christ may remain' (Vatican News)
Posted on 12/3/2025 02:12 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, also offered his own commentary on that theme:
To “disappear so that Christ may remain” does not mean withdrawing into inwardness, building closed communities of the “perfect,” or chasing dreams of power and greatness based on numbers while forgetting God’s logic, which is shown in littleness. To “disappear so that Christ may remain” means becoming instruments—despite our limitations—of that boundless love of God that embraces every human heart without distinction, bending down to the least, the oppressed, and those who suffer.
Powerful Moments From Pope Leo XIV’s Trip to Turkey and Lebanon
Posted on 12/3/2025 00:23 AM (The Daily Register)