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San Antonio priest laicized, excommunicated after calling Popes Francis and Leo ‘usurpers’

by Simone Orendain

(OSV News) — A priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio who was “found guilty of schism” has been removed from the clerical state and excommunicated, according to …

Florida bishops push back on state AG’s threat to participation in school voucher program
Cultivating a relationship with Mary
USCCB’s education director reflects on Catholic school landscape as school year begins
Pope ‘saddened’ by devastation in Indonesia following earthquake
Pope calls for end to West Bank violence, pursuit of two-state solution

U.S. Church

Washington Roundup: Leavitt to step down, Vance urges DOJ investigation over ‘gender ideologies’

by Kate Scanlon

While Congress was in the midst of its August recess, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she would step down from her podium at the end of …

Washington Roundup: Leavitt to step down, Vance urges DOJ investigation over ‘gender ideologies’

Religious life must find harmony amid change, LCWR’s president tells assembly

DeSantis urged to exercise ‘justice, mercy’ and commute Florida inmate’s death sentence to life

‘Strange Land’: The Hillbilly Thomists drop new album while on tour

Iowa dioceses create scholarship-granting organization for federal tax credit program

World

Australian bishop found guilty of abusing 3 young Aboriginal men

by Junno Arocho Esteves

Archbishop Costelloe of Perth said that with the conclusion of the trial, the Church’s investigation of Bishop Saunders “can now recommence.”

Pope Leo XIV offers prayers, financial assistance to disaster-stricken Colombia
Jordan prepares for 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s Baptism in 2030
Desecration of Madrid tabernacles, relic prompts court filing by Christian legal group
Latin America: Bishops express solidarity with Colombia as death toll surpasses 250
Pope Leo says Sunday is ‘foundation and kernel’ of liturgical year

Hong Kong’s Father Benedict Chao, world’s oldest Trappist monk, dead at 108

Pope Leo XIV offers prayers, condolences as bishops urge solidarity following Colombia earthquake

In France, pope to highlight life, unity; Vatican confirms he’ll meet with abuse victims

Vatican

True beauty found in enduring love, which ‘ennobles and lifts us up,’ pope says on feast of Assumption

by Junno Arocho Esteves

Opinion

The Church in the Upper Midwest

by Father Anthony D. Andreassi

Bob Dylan makes me want to be 80. Or even 85.

by Elizabeth Scalia

Five times to pray on the go

by Colleen Pressprich

Reviews

Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie

by John Mulderig
The Odyssey
Live-action ‘Moana’ sets sail on the silver screen
Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ to return to theaters
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