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Starting Seven: June 25, 2025

2 days ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and comment.
What a church attack means for Syria’s Christians

3 days ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X presided Tuesday at a funeral service for victims of a suicide bomb attack at a church in the Syrian capital, Damascus. An attacker entered Mar Elias (St. Elijah) Church in the Damascus neighborhood of Dweila on Sunday, June 22, opening fire on the estimated 350 worshipers inside. The assailant then detonated an explosive vest, killing in total at least 25 people and injuring more than 60.
Starting Seven: June 24, 2025

3 days ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I seek to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary.
Hopes rise for end to Syro-Malabar ‘liturgy war’

4 days ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Hopes are rising, again, for a resolution to the decades-long liturgy dispute roiling the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Clergy on the front line of the dispute in India’s Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly say they have reached an agreement with the hierarchy of the Syro-Malabar Church, the second largest of the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with Rome after the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Starting Seven: June 23, 2025

4 days ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and comment.
Starting Seven: June 20, 2025

1 week ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I seek to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and comment. We’ve been sending Starting Seven to all Pillar subscribers, paid and free, throughout the week. If you are currently a free subscriber and would like to continue receiving Starting Seven, here’s how to sign up. 😇 Today’s saint:St. Methodius of Olympus (Roman Martyrology).
Will Brisbane’s new archbishop bring change?

1 week ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Pope Leo XIV made his first major appointment to an Australian see Wednesday, naming Bishop Shane Mackinlay as the next Archbishop of Brisbane. Mackinlay succeeds Archbishop Mark Coleridge, one of Australia’s most high-profile prelates, who has led the archdiocese covering South East Queensland since 2012. Although Coleridge, 76, passed the typical retirement age for diocesan bishops in 2023, some Australian Church observers had expected him to remain in Brisbane longer into Leo XIV’s tenure.
Starting Seven: June 19, 2025

1 week ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and comment. We’re sending Starting Seven to all Pillar subscribers, paid and free, for the rest of the week. (You can turn it off here). 😇 Today’s saint:St. Romuald (optional memorial). 📜 Today’s readings:Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time 2 Cor 11:1-11 ▪ Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8 ▪ Mt 6:7-15.
‘Let God work’ - Measuring the success of the Eucharistic Revival

1 week ago | pillarcatholic.com | Jack Figge

This fall marks four years since the U.S. bishops’ conference voted overwhelmingly in favor of a National Eucharistic Revival. The initiative – sparked in part by a Pew poll showing that less than 35% of Catholics believe in the True Presence of the Eucharist – aimed to rekindle devotion to the Eucharist among Catholics in the United States.
Polish bishops break ranks over abuse commission reset

1 week ago | pillarcatholic.com | Luke Coppen

Two Polish bishops broke ranks Tuesday after the bishops’ conference announced changes to plans to establish a national independent abuse commission. Bishop Artur Ważny of Sosnowiec and Kraków auxiliary Bishop Damian Muskus distanced themselves June 17 from the decision to overhaul the team leading the project, made at the bishops’ plenary meeting in Katowice last week.