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Take action against rising attacks on Christians, Goa Catholics urge governor (O Heraldo)

Representatives of the Catholic Association of Goa (map) met with the Indian state’s governor and urged him to take action against rising attacks on Christians.

The governor “assured the delegation that their concerns would be carefully considered and communicated to the appropriate authorities” of the nation’s government, the Goa-based newspaper O Heraldo reported.

Leading Australian prelate calls for national probe into anti-Semitism (Australian Catholic Bishops Conference)

Stating that “a society that protects its Jewish community is a society that protects everyone,” the president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference yesterday called for the creation of a “national inquiry with sufficient authority and resourcing” to “probe into the deeper issues which lie at the heart of antisemitism.”

Since the Bondi Beach shooting, “we have heard many times that ‘there is no place for antisemitism here in Australia,’” said Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, SDB, of Perth. “Tragically, we are now confronted by the terrible truth that there are dark places in our society where this most ancient of hatreds festers.”

“It is only by shining a light into the dark corners of our society—including its political, business, academic, media, religious, and cultural institutions—that we can hope to unmask the antisemitism which might otherwise go unseen, unacknowledged and unaddressed,” Archbishop Costelloe added.

Cardinal Koch: Pope Benedict XVI taught us to seek face of God (Vatican News)

Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, celebrated a memorial Mass for Pope Benedict XVI on December 31 at the late Pontiff’s tomb in the Vatican Grottoes.

It was the second of two Vatican memorial Masses for Pope Benedict. On the evening of December 30, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017, was the principal celebrant at a memorial Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Benedict was elected to the papacy in 2005, resigned in 2013, and died on December 31, 2022, at the age of 95.

Brazilian archbishop who resigned at 62 to lead new diocese (CWN)

In a highly unusual decision, Pope Leo XIV yesterday appointed a Brazilian archbishop who resigned in 2019 to lead a new diocese.

Jan. 2 Memorial of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors, Memorial

5-Year-Old Son of Catholic Speaker Paul Kim Passes Away

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Pope Leo XIV Urges Prayers for Peace in Nations, Families and Individual Hearts

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Leo XIV: ‘May the Lord Bless You and Keep You’ in the New Year

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