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A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Oklahoma’s governor commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones on Thursday, just hours before his scheduled execution. The archbishop of Oklahoma City praised the decision, and the gover...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - In a near unanimous vote, U-S bishops approved a new document on the Eucharist yesterday, during their fall meeting in Baltimore. The document highlights the indispensable role of the Euc...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - For the first time in history, several Orthodox bishops are attending the U-S bishops’ fall meeting, taking place this week in Baltimore. The head of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bi...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Archdiocese of New Orleans will pay more than $1 million, in a settlement related to allegations of fraud, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Department of Justice received allegat...

U-S bishops are in Baltimore this week for their annual fall meeting. This is their first in-person assembly since 2019. The bishops began their meeting today with a session that was closed to the media. It is believed the bishops will use that private session to have a frank exchange about a document on Eucharistic coherence. The document could have ramifications for pro-abortion Catholic politic...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A Catholic parish in Houston held a prayer vigil this week for victims of a stampede at the Astroworld music festival. At least nine people died in the stampede, and hundreds were injured...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Catholic bishops in Poland are calling for fervent prayer, for an end to the crisis at the country’s border with Belarus. Thousands of Middle Eastern migrants are gathered at Poland’s bor...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday, in the case of a man seeking to pray with his pastor as he is executed. John Henry Ramirez was scheduled to be executed in September, in Te...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Vatican’s liturgy chief has said that the Traditional Latin Mass was “abrogated by Pope Saint Paul VI.” Archbishop Arthur Roche made the comment in a letter dated August fourth to the...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com A child’s tip led police to arrest a Catholic youth leader in McLean, Virginia, on nine counts of aggravated sexual battery on November first. Antonio Pérez-Alcalá, seventy five, is accused...

Federal authorities have filed additional child pornography charges against Father James Jackson. The priest was arrested last weekend, after investigators allegedly found hundreds of explicit sexual images on an external hard drive in his rectory office. He is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, and pastor of a parish in Providence Rhode Island. He was previously pastor of a Tradi...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A Catholic high school in San Francisco is defending its decision to host a pro-life speaker at an all-school assembly, after students at the school staged a walkout because of the speake...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving a Catholic hospital, that refused to perform a hysterectomy, on a woman who identifies as a transgender man. The hospital refused t...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Supreme Court heard nearly three hours of oral arguments on Monday, in a pair of cases challenging an abortion ban in the state of Texas. The law restricts most abortions after the de...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - President Joe Biden reportedly received Communion during Mass, Saturday evening, in Rome. Biden met with Pope Francis on Friday. After the meeting, the president said the pope told him to...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis met President Joe Biden today, at the Vatican. This was Biden’s first official visit to the Vatican since his inauguration. Biden is the second Catholic president in U-S hist...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Catholics who visit a cemetery on any day in the month of November, to pray for the dead, can earn a plenary indulgence. Typically Catholics can earn this plenary indulgence for praying f...

Vatican City is now providing a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The vulnerable, and those over the age of 60, are being prioritized. Pope Francis and Benedict the Sixteenth may be among the first group to receive a third dose. The Vatican City State is requiring all employees, officials and visitors to show proof of vaccination or recent recovery from the coronavirus, or a recent negative COVI...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Catholics in India are speaking out against a proposed survey of Christian missionaries, and their places of worship. The state government of Karnataka, in southwest India, has proposed t...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis made an appeal for migrants Sunday, calling on the international community to stop deporting migrants to unsafe countries. Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace, t...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Catholic, Anglican, and Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom have expressed opposition to a parliamentary bill that would legalize assisted suicide. The bill would allow for assisted suic...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The archbishop of Vaduz, Liechtenstein, announced this week that his archdiocese won’t take part in the Synod on Synodality, saying that it would run “the risk of becoming ideological.” V...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Benedict XVI said in a letter this month that he looks forward to joining his friends in heaven. The 94-year-old retired pope sent a condolence message following the death of Cisterc...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Scotland’s national shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes was the target of an arson attack last weekend. The fire damaged several memorials at the shrine. Parishioners built the shrine by hand i...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A heartbeat law in Texas is still in effect, after an attempt by the U-S Department of Justice to reinstate an injunction. The Biden administration has pledged to ask the Supreme Court to...