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Current News and Announcements:
8 May 2025: Habemus Papam! It is with great joy that we welcome the 267th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV. May God guide him and bless his pontificate!
1 September 2025: The following 3 playlists have just been released on Spotify: Not Alone Music: Songs for When You Feel Alone, Calm Music: Seizure Recovery, Collapse Recovery, and Ave Maria. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists.’
25 August 2025: FAQs Health Conditions & Joining Catholic Religious Community has just been released under “Holy Orders & Vocations to Religious Life.”
17 August 2025: Catholic Wedding Music Processional (Roman Catholic Wedding Processional Music) has been released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists.’
17 August 2025: New playlists containing podcasts and songs for various Approved Marian Apparitions has been released on Spotify: Our Lady of Beauraing, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Our Lady of Kibeho, Our Lady Undoer of Knots, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our Lady of Pillar, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Champion, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Snows, Our Lady of Pontmain, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Knock, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Banneux. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists.’
17 August 2025: A new section called Catholic Health Resources for Patients has just been published under ‘Health & Tribulations.’ This category contains free Catholic recovery journals in PDF format for FND, Epilepsy, and Diabetes, a free Catholic seizure prayer card for functional and epileptic seizures, a Catholic prayer for the aftermath of a seizure or collapse, and Catholic psalms and prayers for sickness and injury.
4 August 2025: A new section called Catholic Mental Health Ministry has just been published under ‘Health & Tribulations.’ This category contains a PDF compendium of various resources for Catholic mental health ministries including websites, books, programs, studies, Vatican resources, and reviews from parishioners.
1 August 2025: Catholic Lullabies and Magnificat (Mary’s Song) are now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
28 July 2025: Eucharistic Miracles, FND Music Motivation (Functional Neurological Disorder), and Chronic Illness Motivation Music are now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
24 July 2025: Catholic Confession: How to Confess is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
21 July 2025: Considering Catholicism: Why Be Catholic is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
21 July 2025: Teenager Converts to Catholicism: Becoming Catholic as a Teenager is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
14 July 2025: Catholic Infant Baptism Music (Infant Baptism Reception Party Music) is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
2 March 2025: Instrumentals: Love & Kindness is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
1 March 2025: Catholic Bedtime Stories for Kids is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
6 January 2025: New resources have been posted for Dutch, French, Spanish, English, German, and Italian.
Past News and Announcements: 2024
28 December 2024: ‘Eucharist & Mass’ has been added to GCRC above the main menu (black font) alongside the ‘Other Languages.’ Books on the Eucharist are listed here.
28 December 2024: ‘Vocations’ has been added to the Children & Infants category under Faith Based Literature: Fundamentals.
28 December 2024: New resources have been added to the following categories: Parents and Guardians, Church Clergy and Laity, Adults & T(w)eens, New/Returning to Catholicism, Consecrated Life and Vocations, Catholic Media & Culture, Children & Infants, Schools & Education, Catholic Apologetics, Marriage and Dating, Mental Health & Tribulations, Special Needs, Catholic LGBTQIA+ Resources.
30 November 2024: ‘Non-Fiction Books’ for Adults and Teens has now been updated with new books from the 2024 calendar year.
17 September 2024: ‘Catholic Podcasts for Kids‘ is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
4 June 2024: ‘Irish Folk Music: Vocal‘ is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
6 May 2024: ‘Irish Folk Music Instrumental‘ is now released on Spotify. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on ‘GCRC Spotify Playlists’
31 January 2024: Catholic resources in German are now posted under ‘Languages’ and ‘Deutsch’
14 January 2024: The following playlists have now been released on Spotify: Catholic Workout Mix, Derry Girls Essentials: Netflix TV Series, The Rings of Power: Season One TV Music, The Lord of Rings: Film Trilogy Music, The Hobbit: Film Trilogy Music, The Eucharist: Catholic Reflections, Catholic Advent Podcasts, Blessed Marco d’Aviano, Catholic Sports: Sports & Catholicism, Peaceful Catholic Ambiance, Catholic Podcasts for Women, Catholic Podcasts for Men, Catholic LGBTQ Resources for Parents (Catholic Parents of Gay Children), Saint Bruno. For more information regarding GCRC’s Spotify Playlists, please go to ‘Catholic Media & Culture’ and click on “GCRC Spotify Playlists”
