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Fox Nation announces second season for "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints" | The Catholic Weekly

1 week ago | catholicweekly.com.au | John Mulderig

Fox Nation announced 11 June that an eight-episode second season of the docudrama series “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” will become available for streaming beginning in November and continuing through the spring of next year. As before, celebrated director Scorsese will host, narrate and executive produce the programs. Each installment will explore the life of a single saint.
Pope urges peace, warns against escalation in Middle East conflict

1 week ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Justin Mclellan

As conflict in the Middle East escalated with Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran and retaliatory drone attacks on Israel, Pope Leo XIV appealed for restraint and renewed the church’s calls for nuclear disarmament and peaceful dialogue. Speaking to pilgrims at the end of a special Jubilee audience 14 June, the pope expressed deep concern over the “seriously deteriorating” situation in the Middle East, warning of the consequences of further escalation.
Pope "deeply saddened" by tragic Air India plane crash

2 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Junno Arocho Esteves

Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to victims’ families after an Air India flight headed to London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after takeoff in the western city of Ahmedabad.
Commission tells pope universal safeguarding guidelines almost ready | The Catholic Weekly

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Carol Glatz

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hopes to deliver a “Universal Guidelines Framework for Safeguarding” to Pope Leo XIV later this year, the commission said.
Petrocentrism: a problem?

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | George Weigel

One hundred fifty-five years ago, when the freshly minted Kingdom of Italy conquered the rump of the Papal States and Pope Pius IX withdrew behind the Leonine Wall as the “prisoner of the Vatican,” elite European opinion pronounced the papacy finished as a factor in history — and, it was often assumed, the Catholic Church as well. Well. Last month, the election of Pius IX’s twelfth successor riveted world attention as no other change of institutional or governmental leadership possibly could.
Pope speaks by phone with Russian leader Putin

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Cindy Wooden

Pope Leo XIV and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held their first telephone conversation 4 June with the pope encouraging Putin to make a gesture to show he is serious about peace with Ukraine, the Vatican press office said. “I confirm that this afternoon there was a telephone conversation between Pope Leo XIV and President Putin,” said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office.
As pilgrims flock to Ugandan shrine, authorities narrowly prevent massive terror attack | The Catholic Weekly

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Tonny Onyulo

NOTE: Images contain graphic contentAs millions of pilgrims flocked to the famed Ugandan shrine in Namugongo in the days leading to commemoration of the country’s 45 Christian martyrs, local authorities prevented an attempted terror attack in what they said was a swift secret service operation, possibly saving hundreds from imminent death. Suspected extremists, armed with explosive vests, were killed near the Munyonyo Basilica.
Video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing goes viral, boosts interest in their ministry | The Catholic Weekly

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Eduardo Lima

A video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing and dancing hip-hop, a scene taken from a local TV show and defined by celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg as “a real life ‘Sister Act,'” went viral on 28 May, with millions of views all over the world. Sisters Marizele Isabel Cassiano Rego, 46, and Marisa de Paula Neves, 41, were taking part 20 May in a TV show of the Catholic network Pai Eterno (Eternal Father), in Goiás state, in order to talk about a vocational encounter the two were attending in the region.
US-born Pope Leo may be "more attuned" to polarisation issue, analysts say | The Catholic Weekly

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Kate Scanlon

Pope Leo XIV, as the first US-born pope, may bring unique insight to the problem of polarisation in the US and in the US church, analysts told OSV News. “From what I’ve heard, Rome always has an eye on the US church, but that doesn’t mean that what is going on in the United States is going to shape the ways Pope Leo leads the global church.
Picturesque Catholic village in Switzerland buried under landslide | The Catholic Weekly

3 weeks ago | catholicweekly.com.au | Paulina Guzik

A massive landslide triggered by the collapse of part of the Birch Glacier buried nearly 90 per cent of the Catholic village of Blatten in Switzerland’s Lötschental Valley on 28 May. All 300 residents were safely evacuated, but the historic village—once home to vibrant Corpus Christi processions and a 15th-century Virgin Mary statue—now lies under ice, mud and debris.