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Religion news 3 July 2025
Religion Media Centre
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July 3, 2025
Report says media ignores diverse, grass-roots Christianity A report “Christianity in the Media 2025” says that press coverage does not reflect the reality of the fast-changing and diverse UK church, with less than one per cent of stories about...
Vatican correspondent reports ‘major cracks’ in basis of Traditionis Custodes
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 2, 2025
Senior American journalist and Vatican correspondent Diane Montagna reported July 1 that she has obtained the Vatican’s overall assessment of bishops’ responses to a 2020 questionnaire, the results of which were cited as the basis for Pope...
Vatican Downplays Leaked Documents on Latin Mass
National Catholic Register
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Answering a question from CNA during a press conference on another topic, the director of the Holy See Press Office called published reports ‘a very partial and incomplete reconstruction of the decision-making process.’ At the same time, he...
Vatican document leak reignites Latin Mass debate
The Catholic Herald Online
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July 3, 2025
Documents have emerged, in what appears a leak at the Vatican, which indicate that the majority of Catholic bishops did not support the move by Pope Francis to restrict the Latin Mass. The texts from the Vatican’s doctrine office were posted...
Vatican leak undermines Pope Francis and inflames debate over Latin Mass
The Independent
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July 3, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Voices: The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday will reignite China’s religion problem – and put Tibet back in Xi’s firing line
The Independent
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July 6, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Educators embark on life-changing Jubilee Pilgrimage through Italy
Catholic Voice
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July 3, 2025
When Meaghan Younger was placed in St Catherine of Siena as her first school ‘house,’ she never imagined that she would one day walk the ancient streets of the patron saint. Now, a Literacy Coordinator at St Francis Xavier College in Florey, Ms...
French archbishop made head of Pope’s commission for protection of children
The Catholic Herald Online
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July 6, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed a French archbishop as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, replacing American Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, the former archbishop of Boston and the founding head of the...
Local credit unions will beat the pillar banks in the race to offer customers instant transfers
Irish Independent
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These instant transfers are part of the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) system, which was designed to simplify euro-denominated cross-border payments within the EU and make them as fast and simple as domestic transfers. Typically, Sepa transfers...
Vatican to publish document on Synod’s final phase
Catholic News
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July 2, 2025
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB at the Ordinary Council of the Synod meeting on June 26 (ACBC) Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Church’s path toward synodality, his successor has...
French Bishop to lead Vatican's minors-protection commission
United Press International (UPI)
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Pope Leo XIV holds a drawing during an audience with children and young people during the 'Estate Ragazzi in Vaticano' summer camp in Vatican City on Thursday. Photo by Vatican Media/EPA July 5 (UPI) -- French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the...
Vatican grants exemption from Traditional Latin Mass restrictions to Texas parish
Catholic News Agency
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July 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2025 / 14:51 pm The Vatican has granted a parish in Texas an exemption from restrictions to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) imposed by Pope Francis’ encyclical Traditionis Custodes. The exemption, requested by...
Detailed: Egypt and the Greek Orthodox Church’s Dispute Over Saint Catherine’s Monastery
Egyptian Streets
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July 5, 2025
A legal ruling by Egypt’s Ismailia Administrative Appeal Court on 28 May ignited tensions between the state and the Greek Orthodox Church, after judges affirmed government ownership of land beneath the centuries-old Saint Catherine’s Monastery in...
Chicago-area priest accused of sexually abusing a minor at Melrose Park church, archdiocese says
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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July 6, 2025
A priest who served at a number of city and suburban parishes has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor about 40 years ago at Sacred Heart Parish in Melrose Park, according to a statement Saturday from Cardinal Blase Cupich. The Rev. Curtis...
Kenyan, South African, Burkinabe Catholic Bishops among New Members of Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
ACI Africa
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July 4, 2025
Nairobi, 04 July, 2025 / 11:00 pm (ACI Africa). Three of the 22 new members that Pope Leo XIV has appointed to the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue are from Africa, serving as Catholic Bishops in Kenya, South Africa, and Burkina Faso....
Pope Leo Makes New Moves to Tackle Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
The Daily Beast
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July 5, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new chief to spearhead the routing of sexual abuse among members of the Catholic clergy. French Archbishop Thibault Verny will serve as president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, an advisory...
VATICAN - Climate crisis and ecological debt, the Bishops of Asia, Africa and Latin America: the “green Economy” risks being reduced to “modernization of capitalism”
Fides
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July 1, 2025
Tuesday, 1 July 2025 Wolfgang Hasselmann. Pixabay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Saying “enough” to “false solutions” and calling on rich countries to settle “with urgent action” the ecological debt owed to the poorest nations. This is the meaning...
Kenyan, South African, Burkinabe Catholic Bishops among New Members to Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
ACI Africa
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July 4, 2025
The Chairman of the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK) was appointed the Local Ordinary of Malindi Diocese in December 2020 and ordained as Bishop in March 2021, succeeding the late Bishop Emanuel Barbara. Before his Episcopal appointment,...
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Pope Leo XIV signals zero tolerance for abuse in latest Vatican appointment
Firstpost
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July 5, 2025
On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV appointed France’s Bishop Thibault Verny to lead the Vatican’s child protection advisory group, signalling his determination to maintain the fight against clerical sexual abuse. Verny, 59, replaces Cardinal Sean O’Malley,...
Pope Leo XIV Appoints New President to Lead Vatican’s Child Safeguarding Commission
National Catholic Register
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Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry as the new president of the...