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"Harming a victim is harming the image of God": Vatican Secretary for Protection of Minors
ACI Africa
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June 23, 2025
The prelate shared that his pastoral perspective on this issue changed completely after hearing the testimony of a person who had suffered abuse. “I had read, studied, and analyzed it. But it’s another thing entirely to be faced with the real...
What Is the Difference Between the Holy See, Vatican City, and the Roman Curia? Cardinal Ghirlanda Explains
Zenit
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June 24, 2025
(ZENIT News – SIR / Rome, 23.06.2025).- On the occasion of the Holy See’s Jubilee, Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda clarified the differences between the Holy See and Vatican City State and reflected on the reform of the Curia. «Vatican diplomacy...
Pope Leo XIV appoints Br. Armin Luistro to Vatican dicastery
Inquirer
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June 25, 2025
Br. Armin Luistro and Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican on Thursday, May 15. (Photo by Vatican Media handout via CBCP News/Facebook) MANILA, Philippines — Former Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as a member of the...
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by Damascus church attack
The Sun Daily
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June 24, 2025
VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo said on Tuesday he was deeply saddened by a suicide attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Syria at the weekend. A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility the attack on Sunday, which killed 25 and...
Schism overcome? Syro-Malabar Catholic Church reaches liturgical agreement after years of conflict
Zenit
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June 25, 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.24.2025).- A bitter liturgical standoff that once brought the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church to the brink of open schism has finally reached a tentative resolution. In a decision announced just weeks before the Feast of Saint...
Pope Leo XIV names ex-DepEd chief Luistro to Vatican dicastery
Philippine STAR
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June 25, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — Former education secretary Armin Luistro has been appointed, along with other bishops and clergy, to a Vatican dicastery. According to a bulletin from the Vatican press office on Wednesday, June 25 (Manila time), Pope Leo XIV...
German archdiocese faces backlash over sexuality education framework
Catholic News Agency
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June 24, 2025
CNA Deutsch, Jun 24, 2025 / 10:31 am The Archdiocese of Hamburg in Germany has drawn sharp criticism from former Catholic school students and others following the unveiling of a controversial 33-page sexuality education framework that critics say...
Pope Leo’s New Bishops: What do they mean for the Church? | Prayerful Posse
The Catholic Thing
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June 23, 2025
This week on The Prayerful Posse, Raymond Arroyo and Robert Royal analyze the impact of Pope Leo XIV’s newest bishop appointments—most notably, Bishop Shane Macklay as Archbishop of Brisbane. With public support for female ordination and...
Young people are seeking connection. Can the church respond?
USCatholic
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June 24, 2025
In 2016, theologian Jeff Keuss joined a national research effort funded by the Lilly Endowment to explore a pressing question: Why were so many young adults turning away from religion? “It wasn’t a million-dollar question,” Keuss says. “It was a...
How Can the Catholic Church Arrive at Liturgical Peace?
National Catholic Register
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Liturgical peace seems hard to come by these days. But it is my hope that Pope Leo, who has expressed on numerous occasions his desire for “unity” in the Catholic Church, will work toward a resolution of these issues that is pastorally sensitive...
After 28 years of work in Ashgabat, he completes his mission as attaché of the Vatican Apostolic Nunciature
Turkmenportal
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the Cultural Attaché of the Vatican Apostolic Nunciature in Turkmenistan Andrzej Madej, who is completing his diplomatic mission in Ashgabat after 28 years of work. According to...
Leo XIV deeply saddened by Damascus church bombing
ANSA
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June 24, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is "deeply saddened" by Sunday's suicide bombing of the St. Elijah Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus in which killed 25 people were killed, according to a telegram of condolence signed by Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin. The...
Syria: IS splinter group behind church bombing
Deutsche Welle
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June 24, 2025
On Tuesday, the Islamic State (IS) splinter group Saraya Ansar al-Sunna (Brigade of Sunni Supporters) claimed responsibility for the deadly Sunday bombing of a Greek Orthodox Church in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The incident happened when a...
Pope mourns Damascus church attack, prays for victims
Punch
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June 24, 2025
Pope Leo said on Tuesday he was deeply saddened by a suicide attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Syria at the weekend. A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack on Sunday, which killed 25 and wounded...
Political leaders must fix wealth gap, promote religious freedom, pope says
OSV News
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June 23, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The huge economic divide between rich and poor today is unacceptable with so much wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, Pope Leo XIV said. Political leaders have a responsibility to promote the good of the entire...
Pope Leo XIV encourages young seminarians in Vatican City to lead with love and tenderness in a world hungry for power
TDPel Media
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June 24, 2025
Instead of offering rules or rigid guidelines, Pope Leo XIV took a more heartfelt route when he addressed hundreds of seminarians from around the world on June 24, 2025, inside St. Peter’s Basilica. His message wasn’t about doctrine or...
To prevent abuse, pope says church must be vigilant, transparent and listen
Detroit Catholic
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June 23, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ "It is urgent that there take root throughout the church a culture of prevention that does not tolerate any form of abuse: of power or authority, of conscience or spiritual or sexual," Pope Leo XIV wrote to a Peruvian...
Bishop Rhoades Highlights Concerns Amid Religious Freedom Week
Today's Catholic - Indiana
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June 23, 2025
June 23, 2025 // Bishop Religious Freedom Week in the United States commenced on Sunday, June 22, with a focus on political polarization, which can lead to “abandoning the search for truth and fidelity to the Church in order to support one or...
Meet the Future of the Church: Seminarians Gather in Rome for Jubilee
National Catholic Register
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More than 2,500 seminarians from 57 countries converged on Rome this week to pray at the tomb of St. Peter, receive a blessing from Pope Leo XIV, and celebrate their vocations in the Jubilee of Seminarians. “Thank you for courageously accepting...
Bishop Rhoades highlights religious freedom concerns
Vatican News
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June 23, 2025
Bishop Kevin Rhoades, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Religious Liberty, highlights the domestic and international issues the Church in the United States is focusing on during Religious Freedom Week 2025. By Christopher Wells and Kielce...