Catholic News

• Engage in dialogue, not strife, Pope tells Vatican lay employees (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the Association of Lay Vatican Employees to engage in dialogue rather than foment conflict.
• Pope encourages Korean priests, religious to live 'hidden martyrdom' of daily love (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV encouraged Korean priests and religious who reside in Rome to live the “hidden martyrdom” of daily love.
• Cardinal Zuppi, in Assisi, marks 800th anniversary of St. Francis's death (CWN)
  Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi of Bologna, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, celebrated Mass in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi on October 4, the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death.
• The Order of Carthusians: a numerical overview (CWN)
  The Church today commemorates the memorial of St. Bruno (1030-1101), founder of the Order of Carthusians.
• Guard your hearts and support one another, Pope preaches to Vatican Gendarmerie Corps (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the members of the Vatican City State’s Gendarmerie Corps and encouraged them to guard their hearts and take care of one another.
• Preserve unity with the Pope and the apostolic faith, Pope tells Pontifical Teutonic College (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV received members of the Pontifical Teutonic College of Santa Maria in Campo Santo as it marked its 150th anniversary and urged its rector, priests, and associated faithful to preserve “closeness and unity with the Successor of Peter and with the faith of the apostles which he proclaims.”
• Pope pays tribute to St. Francis of Assisi on 800th anniversary of his death (CWN)
  During his October 4 Sunday Angelus address (video), Pope Leo XIV reflected on the parable of the wicked husbandmen (Matthew 21:33-43) and paid tribute to St. Francis of Assisi.
• Pope requests prayers for extraordinary Amoris Laetitia meeting (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV requested prayers for the upcoming assembly on the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia.
• Montenegro's president invites Pontiff to visit nation (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV received President Jakov Milatović of Montenegro in an October 3 audience.
• Pope renews call for Rosary for peace in October (CWN)
  At the conclusion of his Sunday Angelus address on October 4, Pope Leo XIV renewed his request to pray the Rosary for peace in October, the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary.
• Indigenous catechists crucial in Amazon River diocese, bishop tells Pope Leo (Vatican News (Portuguese))
  Pope Leo XIV received Bishop Raimundo Vanthuy Neto of São Gabriel da Cachoeira—a Brazilian diocese about the size of the nation of Italy—on October 3. Bishop Neto spoke for 20 minutes with the Pontiff about the diocese, where “24 different indigenous ethnic groups coexist and 18 distinct languages ​​are spoken,” according to Vatican News. “As the diocese is essentially river-based, travel depends on boats and canoes, requiring missionaries and bishops to undertake long journeys to navigate past waterfalls and reach the most remote communities.” Bishop Neto told Pope Leo that “the process of evangelization and formation relies heavily on the pivotal role of indigenous catechists,” according to the report. “To strengthen faith and leadership within the communities, extended training sessions are held, sometimes lasting up to 15 consecutive days, bringing together dozens of indigenous people from various regions.”
• 1,300 priests, religious from Indonesian island serve as missionaries (Fides)
  A thousand priests and 300 religious sisters from the Indonesian island of Flores have left their native land to serve as missionaries abroad, a bishop told the Fides News Agency. Bishop Yohanes Hans Monteiro of Larantuka also described the situation on the island six weeks after a severe earthquake. “Some of the faithful had already been forced to flee to another place and are internally displaced,” he said. “I am concerned about my people who are living in precarious conditions in this region.”
• Cardinal Gambetti transferred from St. Peter's Basilica to Italian archdiocese (Vatican Press Office)
  In an unprecedented move, Pope Leo XIV transferred Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv., Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the Vatican City State, to the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto. Cardinal Gambetti will now lead a diocese of 270,000 Catholics. Appointment as Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica is typically a capstone, and Cardinal Gambetti’s predecessors as archpriest ended their tenure by retirement, death in office, or election to the papacy. Cardinal Gambetti, 60, was custos general of the General Custody of the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis in Assisi from 2013 to 2021. Pope Francis named him a cardinal in 2020 and transferred him to St. Peter’s Basilica in 2021. His tenure there has been marked by controversy. Pope Leo has not yet named a new archpriest.
• Vatican newspaper sounds alarm about drought in Honduras (CWN)
  Over 700,000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Honduras because of severe drought, the Vatican newspaper reported in the most prominent front-page article in its October 3 edition.
• Pope calls on European leaders to learn from St. Benedict, Venerable Robert Schuman (CWN)
  Pope Leo XIV called on European leaders to learn from the example and words of Venerable Robert Schuman (1886-1963), a founding father of the post-World War II European order—and not to “overlook another founding father of Europe, Saint Benedict.”
• USCCB posts brief videos on politics, voting (CWN)
  The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops posted two brief videos on its website on October 1: “The Call to Put Faith Before Politics“ and “Forming Our Consciences and Voting.”
• Synod's canonical commission calls for diocesan synods, provincial councils every 10 years, 'complete revision' of Code of Canon Law (CWN)
  A canonical commission established by Pope Francis proposed changes to 34 canons of the Code of Canon Law in light of the Final Document of the 2021-2024 synod on synodality.
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