July 13, 2025, the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The readings this Sunday demonstrate that love of God goes hand in hand with care for one’s neighbor.
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Oslo Coadjutor Bishop Fredrik Hansen speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 9, 2025 / 11:07 am (CNA).
In celebration of the Catholic Church’s jubilee year, hundreds of pilgrims have traveled by boat to the Norwegian island of Selja to honor the feast day of St. Sunniva, Norway’s only recognized female saint.
On July 8, the feast day of St. Sunniva, Catholics from multiple countries arrived at Selja, an island just off the west coast of Norway. The faithful gathered to recognize the ninth-century Irish princess whose martyrdom inspired Norway’s first Benedictine monastery and eventually its first diocese.
Oslo Coadjutor Bishop Fredrik Hansen told “EWTN News Nightly” that the island was “where the cross of Christ first arrived in our nation and in our country. So to be here is to celebrate our history, the development of Christianity, the coming of Catholicism to our country.”
“We use it now as part of our buildup to the anniversary in 2030, 1,000 years of evangelization,” Hansen said.
The island was home to the Selja Abbey before it was abandoned in 1537 amid the Protestant Reformation. The island is now a shrine to St. Sunniva that attracts pilgrims from across the globe.
Selja is one of many Catholic pilgrimage sites welcoming the faithful during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.
“It felt logical, I think, for all the Catholic bishops in Norway to designate this as a site of pilgrimage, a jubilee site for people to come and to refresh their faith,” Hansen said.
The celebration on the island began with prayer as the pilgrims walked the trail from the harbor to the ruins of the monastery, where they celebrated Mass. The faithful also learned more about St. Sunniva’s life and legacy.
According to legend, Sunniva was born in Ireland but left after her father’s death. She had rejected a pagan suitor who in turn threatened to destroy her land and oppress her people. The future saint left with a number of other refugees and traveled on a boat that had no sail; the legend claims that they let the current and wind take them where God intended, eventually making it to Selja.
Newly ordained Oslo priest Father Mathias Ledum, a frequent pilgrim to Selja, told “EWTN News Nightly” how Sunniva’s story was an inspiration to him when he was discerning his vocation.
“I came here on the pilgrimage, and I just felt the intercession of Sunniva very strongly for my vocation, and given her story, going from Ireland and setting out in a boat without any oars, without any sails, and just letting God take control,” Ledum said.
Once Sunniva arrived on the island, she and the others took shelter in a cave to escape abuse from enemies they encountered. Ledum said the refugees “prayed to God to be spared from this. And then the cave fell down on top of them. So they died.”
Many years later, according to tradition, a light was witnessed in the same cave Sunnivia once hid and died in. It is said to have spread over the whole island. Many said the cave and the relics within it had an inexplicable but pleasant fragrance.
“There were signs that … these were holy people,” Ledum said. “And then this place became the seat of the first diocese in Norway. Her relics were here. The seed was planted, and you could see … the living faith of Norwegians today.”
“It’s such a great pleasure to be here and to seek their intercession … and to continue to pray for the conversion of Norway,” the priest said.
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The Catholic Cathedral of Limburg in Hesse, Germany. / Credit: Mylius via Wikimedia (GFDL 1.2)
CNA Newsroom, Jul 9, 2025 / 09:50 am (CNA).
The Catholic Church in Germany is facing a cascading financial crisis as declining revenues force dioceses nationwide to implement drastic spending cuts, with one diocese projecting a staggering deficit of over 100 million euros (about $117 million) by 2035.
The Diocese of Limburg — led by the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing — recorded its first annual deficit of 810,000 euros (about $937,000) in 2024.
The deficit signals the beginning of what some describe as an inevitable financial reckoning, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
The diocese attributes the shortfall to “rising personnel and pension costs, a continuing decline in church tax revenues, and the financial consequences of societal megatrends such as demographic change, declining church affiliation, and increasing secularization.”
The financial pressures extend beyond individual dioceses to the national level, reports CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
The Association of German Dioceses, which serves as a legal entity for the German Bishops’ Conference, has announced “ambitious austerity measures” that require cuts of approximately 8 million euros ($9.4 million) from its 129-million-euro ($151.2 million) budget. The association’s full assembly mandated that a balanced budget be presented for fiscal year 2027.
Only recently, however, the German Church was awash with cash. Church tax revenue peaked at 6.76 billion euros (about $7.92 billion) in 2019, up by more than 100 million euros on the previous year, despite a record exodus of 272,771 Catholics that same year.
The windfall reflected Germany’s robust pre-pandemic economy, which temporarily masked structural weaknesses now coming sharply into view.
The financial crisis increasingly reflects the reality in the pews, namely, a precipitous decline in German Catholic membership and practice.
For the first time, the number of Catholics in Germany has dropped below 20 million, with a total of 19,769,237 recorded in 2024 — a decrease of more than 576,000 from the previous year. Catholics now represent less than a quarter of Germany’s population of 83.6 million.
Even more striking is the collapse in active faith practice. Only 6.6% of German Catholics — just over 1.3 million people — regularly attend Sunday Mass, meaning less than 2% of the entire German population participates in weekly Catholic worship.
The Church in Germany recorded more than 321,000 formal resignations in 2024, compared with approximately 6,600 new members and readmissions.
Vicar General Father Wolfgang Pax emphasized that Limburg’s approach would avoid indiscriminate cuts. The prelate said: “Our goal is not to cut with a lawnmower. We want to align budgetary policy decisions with our ecclesiastical mission and strategic goals — with a clear compass in stormy times.”
The financial constraints come as questions persist about the Church’s spending on Germany’s controversial Synodal Way, a multiyear initiative that has drawn worldwide criticism and warnings of potential schism.
Reports raised the question of whether the organizers spent more than 5.7 million euros (about $6.7 million) on the project between 2019 and 2022, although Church officials have declined to confirm such calculations.
The spending has proven particularly contentious, given that the Catholic Church in Germany is funded by both state payments and a mandatory church tax — 8% to 9% of income tax for registered Catholics — making it one of the world’s richest Catholic institutions.
Beate Gilles, general secretary of the German Bishops’ Conference, acknowledged the severity of the situation: “The austerity process, which is already running parallel in many dioceses, is unavoidable. There will be hard cuts that are inevitable.”
She warned that the Church would be forced to withdraw support from important projects due to resource limitations.
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Archbishop Guy de Kerimel of Toulouse, France. / Credit: Paralacre, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
CNA Newsroom, Jul 9, 2025 / 09:20 am (CNA).
The archbishop of Toulouse, France, has drawn fierce criticism for appointing a priest previously convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy to serve as diocesan chancellor, sparking outrage from victims’ advocates and the local Catholic community.
Archbishop Guy de Kerimel named Father Dominique Spina as chancellor and episcopal delegate for marriages, effective Sept. 1, according to a decree published June 2 on the archdiocese’s website. The appointment became public knowledge on July 7, when the regional newspaper La Dépêche du Midi broke the story.
Spina was convicted in 2006 by the Tarbes Court of Appeals for raping a 16-year-old student in 1993 while serving as the boy’s spiritual director at Notre-Dame de Bétharram school. The court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment, with four years to be served and one year suspended.
Archbishop defends ‘mercy‘ decision
De Kerimel defended his controversial choice in a statement to Agence France-Presse, saying he had “taken the side of mercy” in promoting Spina, who had worked in diocesan archives for five years.
“It is true that Father Spina served a five-year prison sentence, including one year suspended, for very serious acts that took place nearly 30 years ago,” the archbishop said, according to Le Monde.
He justified the appointment by arguing that Church officials “have nothing to reproach this priest for in the last 30 years.”
The archbishop added that Spina “no longer exercises pastoral responsibility, other than celebrating the Eucharist, alone or exceptionally for the faithful.”
The appointment has generated widespread condemnation within Catholic circles.
“What is offensive is that this is a priest who was convicted of rape of a minor. It’s unacceptable,” one Toulouse Catholic told La Dépêche du Midi after learning of the news on the diocesan website.
Catholic news portal Tribune Chrétienne described the decision as causing “astonishment” and raising “serious questions” about the coherence of the Church’s commitment to fighting abuse following the 2021 CIASE report.
The controversial appointment also raises canonical questions. Church law requires diocesan chancellors to be “of unimpaired reputation and above all suspicion.”
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
An agreement between the Virginia attorney general’s office and two Christian counselors will limit that state’s enforcement of a so-called “conversion therapy” ban for minors, a law that restricts the way counselors can interact with patients on issues related to transgenderism and sexual orientation.
Under the agreement, the state will allow a patient under the age of 18 with gender dysphoria to receive “talk therapy” that helps the patient conform his or her self-perceived “gender identity” to his or her biological sex. It will also allow a minor to receive “talk therapy” intended to align his or her sexual orientation toward attraction to the opposite sex.
Counselors who provide this type of therapy based on religious beliefs will not face disciplinary action for providing the therapy sessions to patients who request it, according to the agreement.
“This court action fixes a constitutional problem with the existing law by allowing talk therapy between willing counselors and willing patients, including those struggling with gender dysphoria,” Shaun Kenney, a spokesperson for the Virginia Office of the Attorney General, said in a statement provided to CNA.
“Talk therapy with voluntary participants was punishable before this judgment was entered,” Kenney added. “This result — which merely permits talk therapy within the standards of care while preserving the remainder of the law — respects the religious liberty and free speech rights of both counselors and patients.”
The agreement effectively limits enforcement of the statewide ban. Under a 2020 law signed by former Gov. Ralph Northam, counselors could have faced disciplinary action from regulatory boards if they provided the prohibited therapy, even if the patient had expressly requested it.
State law defines “conversion therapy” as any “practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” This includes “efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender.”
The agreement, approved in the Henrico County Circuit Court, notes that the two counselors who challenged the ban in court — John and Janet Raymond — provide Christian counseling that integrates their religious beliefs in therapy sessions. The agreement states this includes “voluntary conversations, prayer, and written materials such as Scripture.”
Because their Christian faith includes a belief that “a person’s behaviors or gender expressions should be consistent with that person’s biological sex” and a belief that “sexual or romantic attractions or feelings should not be directed toward persons of the same sex,” the agreement affirms that the therapy is protected under the state’s constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.
The Founding Freedoms Law Center, which represented the two Christian counselors in court, called the agreement a “major victory” and stated that the ban is “effectively dead” in Virginia.
“With this court order, every counselor in Virginia will now be able to speak freely, truthfully, and candidly with clients who are seeking to have those critical conversations about their identity and to hear faith-based insights from trusted professionals,” the law center’s statement read.
“This is a major victory for free speech, religious freedom, and parental rights in Virginia,” the statement added.
Jennifer Morse, the president of the pro-family Ruth Institute, told CNA she believes this legal victory is essentially about free speech, and added that the bans exist because “activists would prefer that no one try to change, because if enough people try, sooner or later, at least some of them will succeed.”
“The strategic purpose of these bans is to protect the fiction that people are ‘born gay’ and can never change and that ‘sexual orientation’ is an innate immutable trait, comparable to race or eye color or left-handedness,” she said.
“If people start saying ‘I don’t want to be gay. I’m not convinced I was born this way, can I find someone who will talk to me about that?’ enough of them would change enough to disprove these crucial assumptions that underlie the ideology of the committed LGBT activists,” Morse added.
In March, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors. That lawsuit, which could set nationwide precedent, focuses on similar arguments about religious freedom and free speech.
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Anton Krecic, founder of Seven Weeks Coffee. / Credit: Screen capture “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly”/Seven Weeks Coffee
CNA Staff, Jul 9, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Seven Weeks Coffee, an American, pro-life coffee brand, announced July 7 that it has now donated $1 million to pro-life organizations.
Founded in 2021 by Anton Krecic, the coffee company has combined direct-trade specialty coffee with pro-life values. Ten percent of the profit of each coffee bag sold is donated to pro-life organizations, specifically pregnancy resource centers.
“When my wife and I founded Seven Weeks Coffee, the skeptics doubted Americans would support a values-based company. They were wrong,” Krecic said in a press release. “We are so blessed to have gone on this journey with our customers, raising money for pro-life causes.”
During its time in business, Seven Weeks Coffee has donated to over 1,000 pregnancy resource centers in all 50 states, paid for ultrasounds for pregnant mothers in unwanted pregnancies, and estimates that it has helped save over 9,000 lives.
Women from across the country have written to the pro-life coffee company thanking it for its support.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I didn’t know what to do. I was scared, alone, and abortion felt like the only option. But the pregnancy center offered me a free ultrasound — and I saw my baby’s heartbeat. That changed everything,” one mother wrote to Seven Weeks Coffee after the company paid for her ultrasound.
In an interview with “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” in 2023, Krecic discussed how he originally wanted to work in politics but ended up running a coffee company instead. He explained that he moved to Washington, D.C., “with a passion just to get involved in the political process” but that he also has always had “a very big heart for the pro-life movement.”
After visiting a pregnancy care center several years ago, the experience made a lasting impact on him, which led to his idea to start a pro-life coffee company.
“There really was no pro-life coffee company around that I really saw making a kind of a national impact … I was like, ‘There’s a mission here and there’s an impact that we can have,’” he recalled.
While trying to come up with a name for the business, Krecic’s wife asked him when a baby in utero was the size of a coffee bean. After doing some research, Krecic found that a baby in utero is the size of a coffee bean at seven weeks. Additionally, this is also when a baby’s heartbeat is clearly detectable during an ultrasound.
“So I was like, ‘That is the name. That’s what we’re going to call the company,’” he recalled.
In its first year alone, 2022 — which was also the year Roe v. Wade was overturned — Seven Weeks Coffee donated over $50,000 to more than 250 pregnancy resource centers.
“God has blessed us more than we could have ever imagined,” Krecic said.
Read MoreA reading from the Book of Genesis
41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a
When hunger came to be felt throughout the land of Egypt
and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread,
Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Joseph
and do whatever he told them.
When the famine had spread throughout the land,
Joseph opened all the cities that had grain
and rationed it to the Egyptians,
since the famine had gripped the land of Egypt.
In fact, all the world came to Joseph to obtain rations of grain,
for famine had gripped the whole world.
The sons of Israel were among those
who came to procure rations.
It was Joseph, as governor of the country,
who dispensed the rations to all the people.
When Joseph’s brothers came and knelt down before him
with their faces to the ground,
he recognized them as soon as he saw them.
But Joseph concealed his own identity from them
and spoke sternly to them.
With that, he locked them up in the guardhouse for three days.
On the third day Joseph said to his brothers:
"Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.
If you have been honest,
only one of your brothers need be confined in this prison,
while the rest of you may go
and take home provisions for your starving families.
But you must come back to me with your youngest brother.
Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die."
To this they agreed.
To one another, however, they said:
"Alas, we are being punished because of our brother.
We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us,
yet we paid no heed;
that is why this anguish has now come upon us."
Reuben broke in,
"Did I not tell you not to do wrong to the boy?
But you would not listen!
Now comes the reckoning for his blood."
The brothers did not know, of course,
that Joseph understood what they said,
since he spoke with them through an interpreter.
But turning away from them, he wept.
From the Gospel according to Matthew
10:1-7
Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples
and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out
and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the Twelve Apostles are these:
first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew;
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew,
Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot
who betrayed Jesus.
Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus,
"Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’"
Our efforts to seek the face of God are born of the desire for an encounter with the Lord, a personal encounter, an encounter with his immense love, with his saving power. The twelve apostles described in today’s Gospel (cf. Mt 10:1-7) received the grace to encounter him physically in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. Jesus – as we heard – called each of them by name. He looked them in the eye, and they in turn gazed at his face, listened to his voice and beheld his miracles. The personal encounter with the Lord, a time of grace and salvation, entails a mission: “As you go”, Jesus tells them, proclaim the good news: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand’” (v. 7). Encounter and mission must not be separated. This kind of personal encounter with Jesus Christ is possible also for us, who are the disciples of the third millennium. In our effort to seek the Lord’s face, we can recognize him in the face of the poor, the sick, the abandoned, and the foreigners whom God places on our way. (Pope Francis, Santa Marta, 8 July 2020)
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A Mass of Christian Burial was held on June 26 in the Sister Mary Dominic Tweedus Chapel in the Newman Center of Caldwell University for Dominican Sister Mary Patricia Reid, who died on June 20 at St. Catherine of Siena Healthcare Center, Caldwell. She was 83. She was a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell for 65 years. Born in Newark, Sister Reid entered the Sisters of St. Dominic in 1960, received the habit in 1961, made her first profession in 1962, and made her final profession in 1969. She graduated from Mount St. Dominic Academy in
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for July is for expanded formation in discernment. “Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern and how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel,” the pope prays in English in his contribution to “The Pope Video,” a monthly reflection published by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. The video, released July 3, also includes an original prayer people can recite daily during the month. “Grant me a deeper understanding of what moves me, so that I may reject
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module several hours later.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the world waited with bated breath to learn about the contents of the ancient biblical artifact, U.S. Attorney General Pam Pondi made an official statement confirming that the Ark of the Covenant was sitting on her desk waiting to be reviewed.
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HELL — A wailing, screeching sound was heard from the Devil’s office today following the defunding of Planned Parenthood by the United States Government.
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According to rumors, Disney and Lucasfilm are looking at rebooting the beloved Indiana Jones film series sans Harrison Ford, leading fans to speculate what dramatic changes are in store for everyone’s favorite archaeologist. The Babylon Bee is here with all the details.
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The former “Kaispeicher B”, one of the oldest preserved warehouse structures in the Port of Hamburg, is now home to the International Maritime Museum Hamburg. The museum opened 17 years ago today, on June 25, 2008.
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This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA’s Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover’s Mars robotic arm.
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Three members of NASA’s Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units on Nov. 1, 1964.
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This stained glass window located in the Basilica of St. James and St. Agnes, a church in Nysa, Poland, depicts angels adoring the sacred host and wine during an epiclesis to the Holy Spirit, represented as a dove. Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, which is observed as a religious celebration in much of Western Christianity and as a public holiday in various nations.
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This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre).
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In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile (264,000 feet) altitude required for astronaut rating.
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The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. This new composite image contains data of M31 taken by some of the world’s most powerful telescopes in different kinds of light. This image is released in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe.
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