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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...
Religious Freedom Week Is a Call to Gratitude and Action
National Catholic Register
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This is Religious Freedom Week, during which America's Catholic bishops call on us to pray, reflect and act to promote religious freedom. But it’s also a time to give thanks. As Catholics, we can look to the richness of teaching to understand how...
Vatican, la banque est au vert mais les finances restent au rouge
FSSPX.NEWS
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Selon le rapport annuel publié le 11 juin 2025 par le site d’information officiel du Saint-Siège Vatican News, l’IOR a enregistré des résultats financiers solides pour l’année 2024, confirmant une trajectoire positive après des années de réformes....
Cultural Attaché of the Apostolic Nunciature Concludes 28-Year Mission in Turkmenistan
News Central Asia
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June 24, 2025
On 23 June 2025, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, held a meeting with the Cultural Attaché of the Apostolic Nunciature of the Vatican in Turkmenistan, Andrzej Madej,...
Experta: Las religiosas demuestran valentía al ayudar a los demás, pero temen defenderse
The Record - Kentucky
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June 28, 2025
Religiosos, expertos y estudiantes asisten a la Conferencia Internacional de Salvaguardia el 17 de junio de 2025 en la Pontificia Universidad Gregoriana de Roma, Italia. La reunión, del 17 al 20 de junio, analizó los desafíos actuales para...
Vatican Backs Report Calling for Financial Reforms to Alleviate Global Debt Crisis
National Catholic Register
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The Vatican has endorsed a report calling for reforms to alleviate the global debt crisis affecting billions of people in developing countries. The document, titled “The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and...
Religion news 23 June 2025
Religion Media Centre
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June 23, 2025
Pope Leo XIV pleads for peace in the Middle East Pope Leo has urged all parties engaged in the escalating war in the Middle East, to lay down their weapons and pursue peace and diplomacy. In his Sunday Angelus address, he spoke of the “alarming...
Vatican-China Agreement Enters New Phase With Pope Leo XIV at the Helm
National Catholic Register
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Rumor has it that a delegation from China is expected to visit the Vatican at the end of June for the regular bilateral meeting to discuss Sino-Vatican relations and the progress of the agreement on the appointment of bishops. The news is not...
Vatican report urges overhaul of Africa's debt architecture
African Business
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June 23, 2025
A new Vatican-backed report, unveiled in Rome, calls to overhaul the global financial architecture and fix a debt system that it says is punishing Africa and other developing regions. The Jubilee Report challenges the logic of inequity, arguing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vatican secretary for protection of minors: ‘Harming a victim is harming the image of God’
Catholic News Agency
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June 23, 2025
ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 23, 2025 / 06:00 am Auxiliary Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCTM, by its Italian acronym), contends that instead of a single reparative action, victims of...
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...
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...
When Mozart proved himself a child prodigy at the Vatican
Aleteia
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June 29, 2025
In 1770, young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, aged 14, transcribed from memory Allegri's “Miserere,” a sacred work then jealously guarded by the Sistine Chapel choir. In 18th-century Rome, there was a liturgy that drew royalty to the Vatican: Holy Week....
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...
Vatican supports demonstrations in Italy for world peace
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 22, 2025
A Vatican News website release highlights that, in a meeting at the Capitol in this capital on Saturday, “in a global context marked by the recent escalation of the conflict between Israel and Iran,” Cardinal Parolin considered it “positive that...