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- Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Exodus 34:29-35
  Responsorial Psalm Psalm 99:5, 6, 7, 9
  Gospel Matthew 13:44-46
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- UCLA to pay more than $6 million to settle antisemitic complaints
  
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  Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupy an encampment on the campus of UCLA on April 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom...
- Father Carlos Martins cleared of misdemeanor charges after incident at Illinois parish
  
  4 hours ago
  
  Ryan Bethea (left) and Father Carlos Martins (right), co-hosts of “The Exorcist Files” podcast. / Credit: The Exorcist Files CNA Staff, Jul 30, 2025 / 13:09 pm (CNA). The popular podcasting...
- New Jersey hospital receives largest-ever gift to a U.S.-based Catholic health center
  
  23 hours ago
  
  Left to right: Cathleen Davey, president, Holy Name Foundation; Jeffrey A. Brown, acting commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Health; Joan Noble, Douglas M. Noble Family Foundation...
National Catholic Register
- Pope Leo XIV to Jubilee of Youth: ‘Your Voices Will Be Heard to the Ends of the Earth’
  
  Daniel Ibañez/CNA Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile during a surprise ride around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican following the Jubilee of Youth welcome Mass...
- Pope Leo XIV Addresses Youth at Packed General Audience
  
  Pope Leo XIV signs a portrait of himself for a pilgrim at his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Aboard the popemobile...
- ‘Mass of the Americas’ Coming to Wisconsin’s Guadalupe Shrine
  
  Jeffrey Bruno Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco swings a censer during a previous celebration of the ‘Mass of the Americas,’ composed by Frank La Rocca...
News from the Vatican
- Pope Leo expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over deadly attack on church in DR Congo
  
  On Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV expressed his “deep sorrow” over the deadly attack on the church in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which take place the night between July 26 and...
- Pope Leo XIV surprises Catholic youth festival with unexpected popemobile salute
  
  Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics on Tuesday and showed up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony, thrilling the kids and receiving a rock star’s welcome in the first...
- Pope Leo calls on ‘Digital Missionaries’ to have real friendships, and not focus on ‘followers’
  
  Pope Leo XIV admitted science and technology are influencing “the way we live in the world” in a speech on Tuesday to “Influencers and Digital Missionaries” in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee.
Rome Reports