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Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
Religion News Service
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June 30, 2025
(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science....
Children bear ‘heaviest toll’ in growing global conflicts, says Vatican diplomat at UN
OSV News
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June 30, 2025
(OSV News) — Children are among those who bear “the heaviest toll” in the global rise of armed conflict and “the increasing acceptance of force as a means of resolving disputes,” a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations. “Too many children...
Archbishop Fisher given Vatican role
Catholic News
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June 30, 2025
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP (ACBC/Giovanni Portelli Photography) Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Source: The Catholic Weekly. It follows the archbishop’s...
Vatican exhibits Raphael’s legacy with the reopening of the Hall of Constantine
Catholic News Agency
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June 30, 2025
Vatican City, Jun 30, 2025 / 07:00 am After a decade of painstaking restoration, the imposing Hall of Constantine in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, which houses Raphael’s masterpiece depicting Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian...
Vatican Unveils Last Of Four Restored Raphael Rooms after 10-Year Cleaning Project
Art in America
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June 30, 2025
After a decade-long cleaning and restoration, the Vatican Museums recently unveiled the “last and most important” room in the Apostolic Palace belonging to a group known as the Raphael Rooms. The process uncovered a “novel mural painting...
VATICAN - The unity of the Church "is nourished by forgiveness". Pope Leo celebrates the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Patrons of Rome
Fides
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June 29, 2025
Sunday, 29 June 2025 VaticanMedia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Rome “was born of the witness of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and made fruitful by the outpouring of their blood and that of many martyrs.” They too were poor sinners,...
Through fraternity and unity, archbishops can be the example for the entire Catholic church, says Pope Leo
Dialog - Delaware
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June 30, 2025
VATICAN CITY — Archbishops around the world can provide by their example the fraternity and unity in diversity the entire Catholic Church needs today, Pope Leo XIV said. “The whole church needs fraternity, which must be present in all of our...
The First Holy Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
Florida Catholic
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These “proto-martyrs” of Rome were the first Christians persecuted en masse by the Emperor Nero in the year 64, before the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul. Nero was widely believed to have caused the fire that burned down much of Rome in the...
Vatican launches American-style campaign to help erase a $58-million deficit
Los Angeles Times
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June 30, 2025
ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Roman Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary...
Pope highlights St. Augustine in challenge for women religious
Aleteia
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June 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV praises women religious for apostolic spirit at a Vatican meeting that highlighted their courage, care, and the future of female religious life In a warm and pointed address at the Vatican this morning, Pope Leo XIV received...
Pope Leo XIV Says the Unity of the Church "is nourished by forgiveness and mutual trust"
ACI Africa
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June 29, 2025
In an ecumenical appeal, the pope emphasized that this shared sacrifice creates a “profound and invisible unity among Christian churches,” which he called, echoing Pope Francis, an “ecumenism of blood.” In his remarks, Pope Leo reaffirmed: “My...
Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $97-116 million deficit
1News
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Pope Leo XIV today celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary Catholics to help bail...
Monday Starter: Salesian Sisters leader appointed to Vatican dicastery
Global Sisters Report
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June 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Mother Chiara Cazzuola, superior general of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, as a member of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Expressing gratitude...
The Apostles Peter and Paul explained and applied to today’s Church by Pope Leo XIV
Zenit
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June 30, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.29.2025).- At noon on Sunday, June 29, Pope Leo XIV leaned out of the window of the papal apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square to greet hundreds of people gathered to pray with him the Marian prayer of the...
Pope Leo XIV to the Orthodox: “I assure you of my efforts to reestablish full visible communion between our Churches”
Zenit
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June 29, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.28.2025).- On the eve of the feast of the patron saints of the Diocese of Rome – St. Peter and St. Paul – Pope Leo XIV received in special audience a delegation from the Orthodox Church of Constantinople. Since the...
Italy: Controversy About Allotment of Religious Tax Revenue
FSSPX.NEWS
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Cardinal Zuppi expressed his "disappointment at the government's unilateral decision to alter the purposes and allocation methods of the ‘eight per thousand’ tax revenue. This change undermines the original agreement between the Church and the...
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its €50-60 million deficit
The Malta Independent
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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary Catholics to help...
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57 million-$68 million deficit
Washington Examiner
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June 30, 2025
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary...
Pope Leo honors Iloilo prelate with pallium at Vatican mass
Philippine STAR
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June 30, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — A liturgical vestment signifying a prelate’s communion with the pope was bestowed upon the Archbishop of Jaro, Iloilo on Sunday, June 29 (Manila time). Pope Leo XIV conferred the pallium on Archbishop Midyphil Billones during...
Pope Leo reaffirms commitment to full communion with Orthodox Church
Catholic News
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June 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV greets Orthodox Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a bishop of the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, on Saturday (Vatican Media) Meeting a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday...