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Pope Francis offered a prayer for Italy on Sunday as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni became the country’s first female leader. “And today, at the start of a new government, let us pray for unity and peace in Italy,” the pope said at the end of his Angelus address on October 23. Meloni has described herself in speeches as a Christian and has publicly expressed her admiration for St. John Paul II and her desire to meet Pope Francis in person.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252628/pope-francis-prays-for-italy-as-giorgia-meloni-becomes-first-female-prime-minister
Archbishop Charles Chaput, emeritus of Philadelphia, said on Saturday that President Joe Biden “is not in communion with the Catholic faith” and that “any priest who now provides Communion to the president participates in his hypocrisy.” Biden supports abortion, despite the Catholic Church’s teaching that abortion is a grave evil and that human life is sacred from the moment of conception. In his address, Chaput said many Catholics, “even many who regularly attend Sunday Mass, no longer believe in the Real Sacrifice or the Real Presence.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252624/archbishop-chaput-president-biden-not-in-communion-with-catholic-faith
On Friday, the police of the dictatorship in Cuba interrogated Adrián Martínez Cádiz, EWTN correspondent in Havana, and later fined him 3,000 Cuban pesos (about $125) for having criticized the regime on social media. In a statement to EWTN Noticias, Martínez said that he attended the summons at the Plaza de la Revolución Police Station around 10 a.m., where he was interrogated for an hour by a lieutenant colonel. Before being fined, the officer began to fill out an official written warning in order for the journalist to make a commitment to the Cuban State. The EWTN correspondent refused to “commit” and sign the document. The officer then allowed him to leave.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252617/cuban-dictatorship-fines-ewtn-correspondent-and-threatens-him-during-interrogation
Today the Church honors Saint Anthony Claret, a 19th-century missionary and Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-anthony-claret-634