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FR. MURRAY ON POPE’S SHOCKER: NO HOLY WAR! A fresh Catholic firestorm is roaring after Pope Leo XIV told an interfaith gathering at Assisi that “there is no such thing as a holy war,” a line that hit just three weeks after the feast of Our Lady of Vict… ift.tt/AfxG2Hw

Bishops Slammed for Slave-Compromise Comparison The U.S. bishops are under fire after blasting a proposed 2030 census rule and comparing it to the notorious Three-fifths Compromise — but legal scholars and historians are not buying it. In an Oct. 20 le… ift.tt/WF0xNqc

PIUS X WARNS: HUMANITARIAN FAKE St. Pius X’s warning still lands like a hammer: Catholics must fight to restore the Social Reign of Jesus Christ, not surrender to a soft humanitarian fake in its place. In Il Fermo Proposito and Notre Charge Apostolique… ift.tt/wXO6Ybe

Dancing Priest’s Idol Past Stuns Nation A dancing priest with a million-view moment and a former idol dream to his name, Father Lee Chang-min is turning heads again — this time with an essay that lays bare the road from entertainment hopeful to Salesia… ift.tt/VhZY20o

Rosary Miracle In Baptism Water The water formed the shape of a rosary during a baby’s baptism in Brazil… Source ift.tt/tHNG5Fs

RACIST ABUSE DRIVES OUT FIRST BLACK PRIEST A historic first for a 700-year-old south London church has ended in heartbreak, after the Rev Sharon Hunt, the first black priest ever to serve at St Mary’s in Putney, quit following what she says was a vile … ift.tt/7V3Jv4S

Pope Leo Backs Immigration Summit Pope Leo XIV is weighing in on America’s immigration fight, sending a sharp message of support to an interfaith summit hosted by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network as Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders meet to… ift.tt/cgSXFLw

PRO-LIFE Canonization Cause Frozen The push to make Ruth V.K. Pakaluk a saint has hit a sudden wall: her canonization cause has been suspended, even after the Vatican just cleared Worcester to move ahead. The Massachusetts mother of seven, a convert an… ift.tt/8tQX93S

PRIEST HEARS, “I’M ALIVE” IN TRAIN HELL A scene of horror turned into a day of raw human chaos in Spain when a Renfe train smashed into the back of an Iryo train at 200 km/h on the Madrid-Seville line, leaving dozens dead and injured, with the prelimin… ift.tt/DVT3c5h

Black Catholic Saints Series Set to Ignite Screens A new documentary series is set to bring Black Catholic history to life with serious heart and heavy drama, kicking off Nov. 2 on the Archdiocese of Boston’s CatholicTV network during Black Catholic Hi… ift.tt/NTmnlSG

Priests Bear Miraculous Virgin Image Priests carried the andas of Nuestra Señora de Salvacion to the altar of St. Gregory the Great Cathedral in Legazpi on Oct. 28, 2026, setting the stage for a historic pontifical coronation of the 250-year-old wooden… ift.tt/vRIuOqM

Mary Statue Rises After Vandal Raid Vandals smashed into Holy Innocents School in Long Beach, ripping through the hall and desecrating sacred items — including a longtime life-size Virgin Mary statue — but the attack has now boomeranged into a defiant … ift.tt/RLtwUcn

Helsinki Bishop’s Church Cash Plea Finland’s tiny Catholic Church is feeling the squeeze as Bishop of Helsinki Raimo Goyarrola launches an international fundraising drive to buy land and build new churches in a country spread across 340,000 square kilo… ift.tt/u6xK9HP

Barron Slams Anti-Conversion Cardinal Bishop Robert Barron is slamming Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco after the Algerian prelate said the Catholic Church is “not there to convert,” a remark Barron blasted as flatly at odds with the Gospel and the Church’s ow… ift.tt/yp0ZMVf

Cardinal Tobin Kidney Mass, Surgery Set Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark is headed into surgery Oct. 29 after doctors found a kidney mass, the archdiocese said Tuesday — with officials saying the growth appears confined to the kidney and optimism hol… ift.tt/LKJzC0F

PRIEST’S $100K THEFT SHOCKS KANSAS CHURCH A Kansas Catholic priest is now at the center of a stunning theft scandal, after the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas said former priest Rev. Richard Storey pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 fro… ift.tt/5PnxvZt

Popemobiles Go Electric at Vatican The Vatican is putting nearly a century of popemobiles on display — a gleaming reminder of how the papacy went from self-imposed isolation to mass public spectacle. A new exhibit traces the Mercedes-Benz vehicles that… ift.tt/l09sphT

Christian Persecution ERUPTS Across the Globe A stark new global report has delivered a chilling verdict: Christian persecution has worsened in more than half of the countries studied, with conditions deteriorating in 10 of 18 key nations over the past… ift.tt/EaXcnRQ

MASSACHUSETTS HORROR ABORTION BILL HITS 100K Massachusetts’ bitter abortion fight is far from over: as Respect Life Month wraps up, pro-life advocates say they’ve gathered nearly 100,000 voter signatures to try to force the state’s new abortion law bac… ift.tt/Im96u0H

Poland Abbey Faces $1 Million Deadline Poland’s oldest Benedictine abbey is racing the clock in a raw fight for survival: nuns at the 800-year-old Staniatki monastery have launched an urgent $1 million appeal to finish a heritage project by Dec. 31, wa… ift.tt/ReAKEQm