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USCCB Daily Readings from the New American Bible Revised Edition
- Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time July 17, 2026Reading 1 Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 When Hezekiah was mortally ill,the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him:"Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order,for you are about to die; you shall not recover."Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD:"O LORD, remember how faithfully and […]USCCB
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- Archives: Paul VI accused Archbishop Lefebvre of acting like an 'antipope' July 16, 2026VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Confronting a rebel archbishop's accusations and acts of defiance was the heaviest cross St. Paul VI had to bear in his pontificate, said a 2018 book based on never-before published notes and documents.After years of correspondence and efforts at convincing Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius […]PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
- US cardinal: Exorcist role should be 'private' after priest's removal tied to UFO controversy July 8, 2026ROME (CNS) -- Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington said his decision to remove a high-profile priest as an archdiocesan exorcist was driven by the public way he exercised his ministry, not by his specific beliefs about UFOs.Following comments on social media linking UFOs to demonic activity, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti was removed in early June […]PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
- Church needs simpler, better ways to explain synodality, some bishops say July 7, 2026VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Hesitation and resistance to the Church's synodal journey can be addressed with clearer explanations, better training and more hands-on experience of what synodality is, bishops representing North America said."A very clear takeaway is the need for more formation in synodality, including its meaning, its methods and its spirituality," Archbishop Paul S. […]PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
- On U.S. Independence Day, Pope Leo honors migrants in Lampedusa July 6, 2026LAMPEDUSA, Italy (CNS) -- For more than 30 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo said he has examined more than 350,000 people and performed postmortem examinations on those who died making the crossing to Lampedusa, where migrants rescued from the Mediterranean first arrived.One story, he said, has stayed with him.After a shipwreck near Malta, a father told […]PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
- Why the SSPX dispute was never really about the Latin Mass July 3, 2026VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican declared July 2 that the six bishops involved in the Society of St. Pius X's unauthorized episcopal consecrations had incurred automatic excommunication and said its clergy "are in schism and therefore must be considered schismatics."The decree from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of […]PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
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