“Faced with the digital revolution, which seems to suggest the overcoming of the human, the Pope urges us to recognize that Christians are called to bear witness together to the freedom of human beings created in the image and likeness of God,” Cardinal Parolin wrote.

The Waldenses originated in 12th-century France.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert Fisher will administer a Vietnamese parish. Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Monforton, the former bishop of Steubenville, was appointed moderator of two families of parishes, as well as a member of the team of priests who minister in the parishes.

Detroit’s third auxiliary bishop, the former nuncio Archbishop Paul Russell, was accused in 2022 of sexually abusing a minor decades earlier.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said on August 24 that Ukraine’s government has the “responsibility to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land. It is the responsibility to rid ourselves of everything that destroys us from within, such as corruption.”

“Today we are grateful to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our heroes of the present, who—both on the front lines and in the rear—are ensuring that our homeland remains free, united, and independent,” the prelate added. “Let us pray, remember, give thanks, and continue our work.”

Bishop Robert Barron spoke with commentator Bill O’Reilly about “something I’ve seen very clearly, the chaos caused by an open border, and I mean the moral chaos, just the issue of child sex trafficking, which is staggering, and the more we read about that, and more that becomes clear to us, the more we see that an unregulated border is a morally very dangerous proposition.”

Bishop Barron also weighed in on preemptive war:

In classical just war teaching, let’s say Augustine and Aquinas, there was a legitimacy to a preemptive war, even to correct a moral evil Aquinas says, but in the more recent teaching, let’s say the last 75 years, the popes have really moved against preemptive war just given the destructive capacity of modern warfare, and they’ve said that’s only in case of clear unjust aggression that war can be fought.

After she prayed, “My God, tell me who could be suffering more than I am,” Roseline Hamel sought out Nassera Kermiche.

“When she arrived at my door and I opened it, I was so emotional and so happy that no words would come out of my mouth except: ‘Forgive me, forgive me,’” said Kermiche. “That was all I could say, because I needed her forgiveness.”

Citing particular devotions to saints and apparitions, Cardinal Goh said that “unfortunately, some fail to differentiate between Tradition and traditions, regarding the latter as equally important as the former.”

“In other words, they fail to distinguish between the essential doctrines of the faith and the cultural practices developed in different societies,” he continued. “Worse still, they often attempt to impose these cultural and personal traditions on others, treating them as the absolute norm for how faith and life should be lived.”

Cardinal Goh concluded, “Let us be faithful to the Sacred Tradition of the Church—the deposit of faith handed down since the time of the Apostles—and cherish the traditions the Church has developed over the centuries to make the faith concrete and real in our lives.”

Archbishop Gallagher is scheduled to meet with Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs; Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; and Yuri Ushakov, the Assistant to the President of Russia for Foreign Policy.

On the final day of his visit, Archbishop Gallagher will meet with clergy and religious, celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, and meet with the nation’s bishops.

Last month, Archbishop Gallagher visited Ukraine and hailed Ukrainians’ faith and courage. During the visit, the Russian military launched a missile and drone attack that struck the neighborhood of the apostolic nunciature, where the prelate was staying.

Pope Leo XIV praised the work of Marsodeto, an organization based in Toledo, Spain, that assists persons with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy.

Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to the “noble mission” of members of the military and security agencies.

“The Dicastery holds that there is no licit means by which the Diocesan Bishop can involuntarily require the alienation of such a large percentage of the patrimony of the juridic person of a parish,” the dicastery reportedly stated. The dicastery’s decision was announced on the Facebook page of the group Save Holy Apostles Parish.