A multidisciplinary team is investigating an alleged Eucharistic miracle in the Diocese of St. Rose of Lima, Guatemala. Even if the findings are positive, only the Holy See can declare it a miracle.

The initiative aims to reach at least 1,000 seminarians to prepare them to recognize different forms of abuse, support survivors, and promote safer communities in their future pastoral ministry.

Bishops who attended the meeting and the prayer have stated they were invited by the White House Faith Office to discuss issues of importance to Catholics.

María Corina Machado made her first public return to Venezuelan soil at the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Shepherdess in the city of Barquisimeto.

Archbishop Ronald Hicks said the settlement puts the archdiocese “on the verge of being able to … bring some measure of healing and reconciliation to all victim-survivors.”

The bishops oppose a policy that “does not build but destroys,” Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda said, as historian Piotr Franaszek takes the helm of the Church’s abuse commission.

Archbishop Jeffrey Grob said his “intention was never to cause confusion, anger, or disappointment among the people entrusted to my care” and that the meeting was publicized without consent.

Alliance Defending Freedom has urged Egyptian authorities to free six young Christians after they posted a TikTok video that authorities considered offensive to Islam.