Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholics to ask the Lord for “the gift of true conversion” at the start of the 40-day penitential season of Lent.
On Feb. 16, several recipients of Notre Dame’s Evangelium Vitae Medal penned an open letter of protest to Father Dowd over the Ostermann appointment.
Bishop Artur Wazny of Sosnowiec framed the publication of the partial report as a moment of “deep pain,” “shame” and “necessary purification.”