The January 6 promulgation was announced in the March 2026 newsletter of the US bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship. The newsletter was posted on the USCCB website on July 14, along with the January and February newsletters.

“We urge the Departments to refocus the rule on therapeutic, restorative treatments, and to abandon its inclusion of IVF, which is profoundly flawed both legally and morally,” the USCCB’s general counsel and associate general counsel wrote at the conclusion of their 17-page public comment.

The refugees “are sent back to their home country unceremoniously, men, women, children, and entire families alike,” Federico Piana reported. “Often, in the transit camps where they are held before being pushed across the border into the Afghan town of Spin Boldak, they are kept in chains.”

Repatriation, Piana added, is “extremely dangerous; the deportees include former employees of the previous Afghan government, former security force members, journalists, activists, judges, and women active in public life, people who, according to many humanitarian organizations, could face reprisals or discrimination from the Taliban government.”

Prosecutors alleged that Fathers Arlino De Mello and Victor Conceicao Rodrigues “deprived a tenant family of its legal rights to a 2,479-square-meter plot of land,” the Union of Catholic Asian News reported. “Forged land records were used to register the property in the name of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman before it was sold in 2007.”

Father De Mello described the charge as a “clear case of politically motivated harassment.”

As he prayed for a just peace and the release of prisoners and children, Cardinal Zuppi noted that Volodymyr is the first name of both the Russian and Ukrainian presidents. He added, “May St. Volodymyr enlighten the minds and hearts of the two heads of state, opening paths of justice and peace.”

The report, published annually, assesses states on the basis of 20 religious liberty safeguards. The states with the highest rankings are Arkansas, Tennessee, and Florida; the lowest ranked are Michigan (48), Vermont (49), and New York (50).

Boscia, the IOR’s deputy director general, succeeds Gian Franco Mammì, the director general since 2019, who has reached retirement age. Prior to becoming the IOR’s CFO in 2019, Boscia was head of fixed income and credit at Quaestio Capital SGR.

Under the IOR’s governance structure, the director general reports to the IOR’s Board of Superintendence, which in turn is overseen by a Commission of Cardinals. An on-site prelate—since 2013, Msgr. Battista Mario Salvatore Ricca—“helps administrators and employees govern and operate according to the founding principles of Catholic ethics and consistently with the mission of the Institute.”

The director general, in turn, “directs and controls all activities concerning the administration, management and organization of the Institute, as well as the recruitment and management of personnel.”

Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Bonaventure Gubazire, M.Afr., rector of the Missionaries of Africa’s formation house in Enju, Ghana, as the new bishop of Kabale. The Ugandan diocese is the priest’s diocese of birth.

Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Bishop Antonio Santarsiero Rosa, O.S.J., from the governance of the Diocese of Huacho, Peru.

“It is alleged the donations were arranged and approved by the Catholic Schools NSW chief executive, Dallas McInerney, to recruit or renew members to the party,” The Guardian reported.