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the USCCB makes the heartbreaking announcement that we will not be renewing existing cooperative agreements with the federal government

Dicasteries

International Theological Commission publishes important document on the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea

The International Theological Commission has now published an important and comprehensive document entitled, “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior: The 1700th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea.” It aims not only to recall the nature and significance of the Council, given its great historical importance for the Church, but also to highlightthe extraordinary resources that the Nicene creed, continuously professed up to our own time, contains and re-proposes, especially in view of the new phase of evangelization that the Church is presently called to undertake

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Ortega Regime Seizes Matagalpa Diocese Headquarters in Latest Attack on Nicaragua’s Catholic Church

The confiscation of the curia is widely seen as an extension of the Ortega regime’s vendetta against Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the exiled leader of the diocese. Arrested in 2022 after a two-week police raid on churches in Matagalpa, Álvarez was sentenced in 2023 to 26 years in prison on charges of “treason.” Stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship, he became stateless in a blatant violation of international law.

Justice and Peace•Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

Archdiocese of Chicago brings alleged fraudsters who allegedly posed as abuse victims to trial

According to the lawsuit, a group of men—some of them convicted gang members and murderers—devised a scheme more than a decade ago to falsely accuse McCormack of sexual abuse. A recorded prison call would have revealed discussions of how easy it was to deceive the archdiocese. Other subpoenas uncovered conversations in which the accused reportedly joked about exploiting the system.