“It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period between 2013 and 2024,” Archbishop Welby said in a Nov. 12 statement.

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego proposed the task force, which was supported from the floor by Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J.

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, who earlier prohibited specific hymns and composers, has now issued a new decree opening a synodal approach to the issue.

Cardinal Dolan of New York still held out hope that the Democratic nominee could change her plans and join the event which her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, is now planning to attend.

Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend the Al Smith charity dinner on Oct. 17.

After Israel recovered the bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza, including the body of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, President Biden, who has met with Hersh’s parents, said, “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.”

The coffin of St. Teresa of Ávila was opened on Aug. 28 in the presence of a scientific medical team and members of the ecclesiastical court, and her body has been found incorrupt. The last time it was opened was 110 years ago.

“Theresa’s ministry was about truth-speaking,” Sister Susan Sanders said in a statement. “Truth-speaking about women’s desire for full inclusion in the Church; and truth-speaking to Church leaders like Pope John Paul II.”

The National Eucharistic Congress officially began July 17 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis with a powerful holy hour that saw tens of thousands of people kneeling in silent adoration before Jesus in the Eucharist.

Following an Israeli attack on Holy Family, a Catholic school turned shelter for hundreds of civilians, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the attack and called for a cease-fire agreement.