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Sr. Becquart: New Synod document to foster exchange of gifts among local Churches
Vatican News
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July 7, 2025
Sister Nathalie Becquart, Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, speaks to Vatican News about the new document "Pathways for the Implementation Phase of the Synod," highlighting the realization of synodality within the...
Great power and great fragility: The mysterious weight of the Vatican
Aleteia
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July 7, 2025
In an interview, French journalist Loup Besmond de Senneville talks about the popes, and the Vatican's significant "soft power" combined with "fragility." Stationed in Rome from 2020 to 2024 for the French newspaper La Croix, journalist Loup...
Vatican vs clergy sexual scandals: Pope Leo installs new head of anti-abuse commission
The Week
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Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican's commission to combat clergy sexual abuse. This is the recently inducted spiritual leader's first public move towards an issue that has seriously damaged...
Pope Leo appoints successor to Cardinal O'Malley on the Vatican anti-abuse commission
Rome Reports
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July 7, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has already appointed the new president of the Vatican’s anti-abuse commission. His name is Thibault Verny and he is a French bishop who has been part of this body since 2022. In fact, he can be seen at some of the meetings with Pope...
Watch: South Africa’s Bishop Sipuka selected for Vatican interfaith work
Cape Town ETC
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July 7, 2025
South Africa’s Bishop Sithembele Sipuka will help lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The body focuses on building relationships between the Catholic Church and other faith communities around the world. On 3 July, Bishop...
President Lee Expresses Hope for Vatican's Role in Inter-Korean Relations
KBS World
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July 7, 2025
Photo : YONHAP News President Lee Jae Myung has voiced hopes that the Vatican will play a role in improving inter-Korean relations. He shared the sentiment on Monday during a meeting with Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, South Korea’s first...
Religion news 4 July 2025
Religion Media Centre
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July 4, 2025
BBC Director General apologises to Jewish staff over Glastonbury The BBC says it will no longer broadcast high risk performances live, after the controversy over the live streaming of Bob Vylan’s performance at Glastonbury where he encouraged the...
Pope appoints French archbishop to Vatican safeguarding role
Catholic News
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July 6, 2025
Pope Leo XIV and Archbishop Thibault Verny (Vatican Media) Pope Leo XIV has appointed a French archbishop as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. Source: Crux. Archbishop Thibault Verny, who heads the...
POWER OF FAITH: The Catholic Church – Faith, Frustration & the Future
Gazebo Gazette - Mississippi
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July 6, 2025
by Andrew Koslosky KGCHS, Contributing Writer The Catholic Church, with its two thousand years of history, its global reach, and profound spiritual teachings, has long been the cornerstone of religious life for millions. Over the last twenty...
Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’
The Pillar
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July 3, 2025
A Vatican spokesman argued Thursday that leaked documents suggesting the world’s bishops did not favor a clampdown on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite when they were surveyed in 2020 were “very partial and incomplete.” Holy See press...
SAVE THE CHILDREN: Pope Leo XIV Appoints French Archbishop Thibault Verny To Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
The Gateway Pundit
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July 6, 2025
Pope Leo XIV (formerly archbishop Robert Prevost) and his new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, French Archbishop Thibault Verny. As American Pope Leo XIV starts to work on the priorities of his papacy, it is...
Church adds Mass ‘for care of creation’ to missal, pope to celebrate
Texas Catholic
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July 3, 2025
By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican announced that a new formulary of prayers and biblical readings for the Mass will be added to...
Church adds Mass ‘for care of creation’ to missal
Catholic Courier - New York
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July 3, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican announced that a new formulary of prayers and biblical readings for the Mass will be added to the Roman Missal — the liturgical...
Clergy Abuse, Church Reform, and Accountability
The Good Men Project - California
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July 6, 2025
Rev. Dr. John C. Lentz Jr. served over 30 years as Lead Pastor of Forest Hill Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Known for passionate preaching, community leadership, and a commitment to justice and compassion, he profoundly shaped...
Vatican names panel of independent judges for trial of disgraced ex-Jesuit Marko Rupnik
America Magazine
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July 3, 2025
(OSV News) -- The Vatican has officially named the judges who will oversee the canonical trial of Father Marko Rupnik, the disgraced Slovenian priest and artist accused of sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing more than two dozen...
VATICAN - The online missiology course in Spanish promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies begins in October
Fides
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July 3, 2025
Vatican City – In the context of the Jubilee Year and the Jubilee of the Missionary World, scheduled for October 4 and 5, 2025, the Pontifical Missionary Union, in collaboration with the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies of...
Vatican says documents on Latin Mass assessment ‘incomplete’
OSV News
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July 3, 2025
1 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Without verifying their authenticity, the director of the Holy See Press Office said that a series of documents purporting to reveal bishops’ input into Pope Francis’ decision to restrict celebrations of the pre-Vatican II...
Vatican Hopes New Mass Prayers Will Renew Care for God’s Creation
National Catholic Register
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Cardinal Czerny said Pope Leo XIV will celebrate a private Mass using the new prayer formulas in Castel Gandolfo on July 9. The Vatican on Thursday presented new Mass prayers and biblical readings to be used to support the Church’s appreciation...
Culture War on Harvard Spells Disaster for America's AI Future | Opinion
Newsweek
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July 3, 2025
The battle between the White House and Harvard University over a $2.2 billion federal funding freeze and demands to ban international students is no isolated attack. It's part of a broader war on liberal higher education—and a harbinger of a wider...
Vatican officially names panel of judges for canonical trial of Father Rupnik
The Catholic Spirit - Minnesota
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July 3, 2025
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks to reporters at the Vatican Sept. 19, 2024. The cardinal confirmed July 3, 2025, the Vatican has officially named a panel of judges for the canonical...