During a recent visit to Campania, Pope Leo XIV “called everyone to a leap of dignity and responsibility, inviting them to serve life, to choose justice and to place the common good above partisan interests,” the bishops said in their July 6 statement.

“We care about our communities, families, young people, the elderly, the sick, workers, migrants, prisoners, those who live in inland areas, urban and social peripheries, lands wounded by pollution, illegality and abandonment,” the bishops continued, as they asked for “a serious, shared and non-ideological discernment” about a range of concerns, including abortion, the Mafia, pollution, and prisons.

The incident took place on June 29 at St. Mary’s Church in Freudenberg, a small city in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

“The staggering level of errors surrounding the practice of euthanasia in Canada betrays a level of indifference and callousness toward Canadian patients at end of life,” said Amanda Achtman, ethics director of Canadian Physicians for Life. “At the same time, every euthanasia death is a medical ‘error’ because it is an aberration of sound medical practice rooted in the Hippocratic oath to ‘do no harm.’”

In “La sinodalità è come ballare” (Synodality is like dancing), an article published on July 7, Cardinal Cupich wrote that “both dance and synodality require a shift from individual performance to collective harmony, transforming a group of distinct individuals into a single, moving body.”

“Synodality is the Church learning to dance,” he continued. “It is a constant practice of listening to the divine melody, honoring each participant’s unique steps, and moving forward in a beautifully coordinated witness to the world. It reminds us that the goal is not to reach the end of the song as quickly as possible, but to offer praise to the Creator through grace, unity, and the love shown in every single step along the way.”

Father Rogério Gomes, C.Ss.R., issued his statement prior to the scheduled illicit episcopal consecration of a Transalpine Redemptorist priest.

The Transalpine Redemptorists, a traditionalist community founded in 1988, reconciled with the Holy See in 2008 but adopted a sedevacantist position in May. Father Michael Mary is scheduled to be ordained a bishop on July 25 by Bishop Pierre Roy, a former priest of the Society of Saint Pius X who traces his episcopal lineage to a bishop ordained by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục.

“At some points he and the parish cared for more than 3,000 refugees at the mission,” said Bishop Gazzera. “He maintained many contacts with various rebel leaders and the authorities, always striving to mediate and find resolutions for the conflicts.”

The Central African Republic Civil War began in 2012; Father Monga coordinated the Local Committee for Peace and Reconciliation.

Father Stolfi, born in 1970 and ordained in 1996, is now parish priest of San Lino, a parish with weekly Eucharistic adoration. Confessions are scheduled at the parish for over four hours each weekday, as well as during every Sunday Mass.

The July 7 appointment followed the creation of the position in a June 24 apostolic letter. Article 19 of Confirma Fratres Tuos provides that the moderator of the curia, appointed upon the recommendation of the cardinal vicar for a five-year term, coordinates the activities of the diocesan curia.

“I know, for some, these words are difficult to hear, especially for those who have worshiped, whether regularly or on occasion, at liturgies celebrated by priests of the Society for spiritual reasons and who never affirmed or professed the Society’s contradictory theology,” Bishop Michael Duca said in his July 7 statement.

Bishop Duca encouraged attendance at a diocesan parish where the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated on Sundays.

Over the past year, settlers have repeatedly attacked Taybeh. Amid the reported beginning of the outpost’s construction, Father Bashar Fawadleh warned that Christian families “fear living under constant intimidation, while farmers worry they may no longer be able to reach their fields and poultry farms in the eastern part of the village,” according to Vatican News.

“The Holy Land cannot be preserved through words alone,” he said. “It must be protected through concrete action ... Do not wait until yet another irreversible reality is imposed. The time to act is now.”

L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page article in its July 7 edition to Suhail Abu Shawish, a Palestinian craftsman who repairs ouds in a Gaza refugee camp.