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Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57-68...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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In churches around the world, Masses on the July 29 feast day often include a special collection for Peter's Pence, a fund which both underwrites the operations of the central government of the Catholic Church and pays for the pope's personal acts...
Pope Leo XIV Says the Unity of the Church ‘Is Nourished by Forgiveness and Mutual Trust’
National Catholic Register
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‘Today is the great feast of the Church of Rome, born from the witness of the apostles Peter and Paul and made fruitful by their blood and that of many other martyrs.’ Pope Leo XIV said on Sunday that unity in the Catholic Church “is nourished by...
Catholic bishops try to rally opposition to Trump’s immigration agenda
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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The image in Los Angeles and elsewhere of ICE agents seizing people in Costco parking lots and car washes “rips the illusion that’s being portrayed, that this is an effort which is focused on those who have committed significant crimes,” said...
Vatican Backs Upcoming International Symposium in South Africa, Urges Delegates to Advance Gospel Witnessing
ACI Africa
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June 20, 2025
The event also seeks to create “a just and accountable global debt architecture rooted in equity and the public good; and the development of a Universal School Meals Program as a global commitment to child nutrition and education.” The outcomes of...
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Pope Leo XIV marks feast day with appeal to help erase Vatican’s budget shortfall
Firstpost
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June 29, 2025
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...
Scanning the heavens at the Vatican Observatory
CBS News
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Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science....
Pope Leo XIV launches Vatican deficit campaign, scores with collectible card
Straight Arrow News
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June 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV led the solemn celebration of Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of Rome and its Diocese, at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, June 29. During the Mass, he blessed and bestowed the pallium upon 54 newly appointed Metropolitan archbishops,...
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57-68 million deficit
Yahoo News
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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...
Not the Church I Left
American Thinker
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June 29, 2025
As I’ve written before, the church of my baptism was where you, Creator, heritage, past, present, and future merged and focused. This remains the image and fact of my relation with the church. During my childhood it was appropriately beautiful in...
Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57-68 million deficit
Associated Press
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June 29, 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...
Religious women and leadership: the missing story on television
L'Osservatore Romano
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by Alessandra Comazzi* There is a kind of short circuit between representation and reality when it comes to religious women. In the Vatican, they become prefects and governors; there are sisters who are economists, historians, university...
Pope Leo XIV Reaffirms Commitment to Ending Schism With Orthodox Churches
The Epoch Times
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June 28, 2025
Pope Leo XIV blesses faithful and pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for the Regina Caeli noon prayer on May 25, 2025. Andrew Medichini/AP Photo Since 1054, the Great Schism has split the Christian Church into two main groups: the Western...
“You are called to serve, not to rule”: Vatican Official to 32 Newly Ordained Priests in Nigeria
ACI Africa
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June 27, 2025
“You are to be configured to Christ the High Priest and united in Priesthood with your Bishop. You will be preachers of the Gospel, pastors of the people of God, and celebrants of the Eucharist,” he said. Archbishop Nwachukwu urged the...
Experts: Catholic media witness to truth, Gospel and are at ‘kairos moment’ in church
OSV News
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June 29, 2025
PHOENIX (OSV News) — Catholic media play a vital role in bearing truth and witnessing to the Gospel, especially amid the digital age and a crucial moment for the church, said experts during a panel discussion at the 2025 Catholic Media Conference....
Pope Leo looks to MAGA megadonors to shore up Church finances
Politico Europe
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June 28, 2025
The Vatican’s income is mainly derived from property assets and donations including from bishops and Peter’s Pence, the annual June collection by churches for the pope’s “mission” and charitable works. But donation revenue has fallen with...
Vatican-backed report wants debt relief for developing countries
Christian Today
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June 21, 2025
(Photo: Getty/iStock) A report initiated by the late Pope Francis has called for changes to the global financial and debt system in what is the Catholic Church's “Jubilee Year”. The Jubilee Year is a year in which the Catholic Church commits...
Two historic Catholic churches in Baltimore are merging. Parishioners are holding their breath.
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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June 28, 2025
Sitting in wooden chairs, parishioners listened to pastoral associate Colleen McCahill lead a lunchtime service as a fan whirred behind them and a mosaic window cast color on a wall. McCahill has led such Word & Communion ceremonies, which take...
Real men, public education, and choice words
The Pillar
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June 27, 2025
Pillar subscribers can listen to Ed read this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Happy Friday friends, And a happy feast of the Sacred Heart to you all. Fair warning, I am supposed to be going on vacation once this is out, so it’s possible I might...
Pope Leo ordains 32 priests, calls Church to be united and transformed by the Heart of Christ
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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June 27, 2025
Pope Leo XIV ordained 32 men to the priesthood June 27, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and he urged all priests to find unity and renewal in the Heart of Christ. The Mass, celebrated at the Altar of the Confession in Saint Peter’s...
“A proud moment”: Leadership of South African Political Party Lauds Bishop’s Appointment to Vatican Dicastery
ACI Africa
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June 26, 2025
Johannesburg, 26 June, 2025 / 9:47 pm (ACI Africa). The appointment of Bishop Thulani Victor Mbuyisa of South Africa’s Koksta Catholic Diocese as a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic...