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Exclusive: Trump’s immigrant deportations are ‘morally repugnant,’ senior US Catholic leader says
CNN
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July 3, 2025
Rome CNN — A prominent Catholic Church leader and ally of Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, describing the rounding up and deportation of immigrants as “inhumane” and “morally repugnant.” In a...
Vatican Scam Alert: Fake Pope Leo Profiles on Facebook Asking for Money
Rome Reports
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June 28, 2025
Pope Leo does not have a Facebook account nor is he requesting donations. This is what the Vatican has come forward to clarify: a digital scam in which fake profiles are used to ask for money using the Pope’s name. The fraud emerged especially...
Pope Leo XIV encourages Ukrainian bishops during meeting at the Vatican
Catholic News Agency
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July 2, 2025
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 2, 2025 / 17:47 pm Following last week’s meeting with pilgrims from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday received in audience the bishops who are members of the Ukrainian...
Vatican publishes the note ‘Jubilee 2025: remission of the ecological debt’
Zenit
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June 28, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.27.2025).- The thematic note ‘Jubilee 2025: remission of the ecological debt’, signed by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, was published on Tuesday 23 June and can be downloaded in 5 languages....
Cardinals from Global South deliver urgent climate appeal at Vatican
Religion News Service
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July 1, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Warning of “irreversible impacts” if the world stays on its current course, three influential cardinals from the Global South presented a document at the Vatican on Tuesday (July 1) calling for bold international action on...
Vatican: Bank in the Green, But Finances Remain in the Red
FSSPX.NEWS
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According to the annual report published on June 11, 2025, by the Holy See's official website, Vatican News, the IOR recorded solid financial results for 2024, confirming a positive trajectory after years of reforms. The institute thus generated a...
Commentary: Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science. “These developments...
Latin Mass debate grows after apparent leak of Vatican liturgy report
America Magazine
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July 2, 2025
ROME (AP) — The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way, with the apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine the stated reason of his...
Raphael’s experiments with innovative painting technique revealed by Vatican Museums restoration
The Art Newspaper
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July 1, 2025
Restoration work on the Hall of Constantine at the Vatican has revealed an innovative mural painting technique that the Renaissance artist Raphael experimented with. The hall, part of the Raphael Rooms at the Apostolic Palace, was reopened last...
Pope Leo XIV reminds women religious that ‘being rooted in Christ’ makes unimaginable possible
Arlington Catholic Herald - Virginia
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During an audience of religious sisters belonging to several orders, Pope Leo XIV told the group that rootedness in Christ allows them to “do things they perhaps never thought they could achieve.” The Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great,...
With pope’s support, Vatican to publish document on synod’s final phase
Catholic Star Herald - New Jersey
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July 2, 2025
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church’s path toward synodality — a term many in the church had never heard before — his successor has thrown his support...
Emine Erdoğan meets Pope Leo XIV on Gaza, climate, family in Vatican
Sabah
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July 2, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan met with Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Wednesday, July 2, where the two leaders held a wide-ranging discussion on global humanitarian concerns, interfaith cooperation and the importance of...
Vatican unveils last restored Raphael Room after 10-year cleaning that yielded new discoveries
KSL - Utah
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways rival the Sistine Chapel as the peak of high...
Touring the Vatican Museums in Rome
Detroit Catholic
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July 1, 2025
Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger and pilgrims in Rome to witness his reception of the pallium from Pope Leo XIV spent a day touring the Vatican Museums, a lesson in history, art, faith and culture and a treasure of the Church.
Debate over Latin Mass heats up after apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine Pope Francis
Corsicana Daily Sun - Texas
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ROME (AP) — The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way, with the apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine the stated reason of his...
Vatican unveils last of restored Raphael Rooms after 10-year cleaning that yielded new...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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Vatican Museums officials recounted the discoveries on Thursday in inaugurating the hall, known as the Room of Constantine, after the last scaffolding came down. The reception room, which was painted by Raphael and his students starting in the...
The Church Beyond Bureaucracy: Reclaiming the Mystical Identity of the Body of Christ
The News Chronicle
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July 2, 2025
A quiet but critical confusion is emerging among members of the Christi fideles — the lay faithful of the Catholic Church — in recent decades. Increasingly, the Church is being understood not as the living Mystical Body of Christ, but as a merely...
"Being rooted in Christ" Makes Unimaginable Possible: Pope Leo XIV to Women Religious
ACI Africa
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July 1, 2025
The pope then recalled the words of St. Augustine: “God is your everything. If you are hungry, God is your bread; if you are thirsty, God is your water; if you are in darkness, God is your light that never fades; if you are naked, God is your...
VATICAN - Pope Leo embraces Eastern Christians, struck by violence “with a diabolical intensity previously unknown”
Fides
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June 26, 2025
Thursday, 26 June 2025 abouna.org Vatican City – (Agenzia Fides) – Today, violent conflict seems to be raging in the Christian East "with a diabolical intensity previously unknown". And precisely in those lands, now covered “by a cloud of hatred...
Catholic Bishop in South Africa “delighted” at Number of African Appointees to Vatican Dicastery for Consecrated Life
ACI Africa
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June 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV also appointed Bishop Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie, the Auxiliary Bishop of Ethiopia’s Catholic Archdiocese of Addis Ababa and member of the Religious Institute of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCJ), and Fr. Stanley...