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Pope Paul VI and Jacques Maritain, a new exhibition at the Vatican Museums
Rome Reports
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June 21, 2025
As part of the Jubilee Year, the Vatican Museums have opened an exhibit dedicated to the French philosopher, Jacques Maritain, and his close friendship with Pope Saint Paul VI. MICOL FORTI, Modern and Contemporary Art, Vatican Museums They met in...
Pope Leo XIV prepares to celebrate his first Corpus Christi Mass as bishop of Rome with a public appearance at St John Lateran Basilica in Vatican City
TDPel Media
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June 21, 2025
For many Catholics, Corpus Christi is one of the most cherished celebrations of the liturgical year. And this year, it’s a particularly significant moment for Pope Leo XIV. As the new bishop of Rome, he’s preparing to celebrate the solemn feast of...
Review: The Catholic fragments of art, faith and sex in 1980s pop culture
America Magazine
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June 20, 2025
Not to judge a book by its cover, but Paul Elie’s new one serves as a sterling representative for the story within. A photograph depicts a group of protesters, members of the gay Catholic group Dignity, forming a human cross on Fifth Avenue in New...
Pope tells future Vatican envoys to serve with humility and faith
Vatican News
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June 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV thanks priests of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy who have completed a year of missionary service for their dedication and urges them to live their priesthood with humility, closeness, and faith, wherever the Church may send...
Patriarchs' message on Gaza visit: Gaza's community will not be abandoned or forgotten
Detroit Catholic
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July 18, 2025
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who entered the Gaza Strip together with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, is seen in a July 18, 2025 photo in front of Holy Family Parish Church in Gaza City. They...
A solution may happen for the liturgical crisis in the Syro-Malabar Church in India
Crux Now
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June 21, 2025
MUMBAI, India – Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and his vicar Mar Joseph Pamplani on Thursday proposed a solution to the ongoing liturgical dispute in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly in Kerala, a southern state in India. A press release...
Alex Collier reveals earthâs hidden history: Extraterrestrial contact, lost civilizations, and the Vaticanâs cover-up
Natural News
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June 20, 2025
Alex Collier reveals earth’s hidden history: Extraterrestrial contact, lost civilizations, and the Vatican’s cover-up Suppressed Human History: Alex Collier reveals how institutions like the Smithsonian and Vatican hide evidence of advanced...
Roger Haight on new ways of thinking about the church
America Magazine
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June 20, 2025
Editor’s note: Roger Haight, S.J., died on June 19, 2025. A prominent Catholic theologian and a frequent contributor to America, he offered this substantial essay in April of this year, with typical humility, in an email titled “Sneaking in a...
Syro-Malabar Church reaches agreement: new, less rigid rules for 'rebel' diocese kick in on 3 July
Asia News
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June 21, 2025
Major Archbishop Thattil and Vicar Pamplany have decided that, in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, it will be sufficient to celebrate at least one Sunday Eucharistic liturgy according to the unified rite decided by the Synod, thus leaving...
Italian Government Leads Participants in Catholic Church’s Jubilee This Weekend
National Catholic Register
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Members of Italy’s local and national governments will be the main participants in events for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Government Leaders on June 21–22, part of the wider Jubilee of Hope. According to the Vatican, the weekend’s events mix...
Finance experts launch report at Vatican on foreign debt relief
OSV News
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June 20, 2025
“Today, 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health, and 2.1 billion live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on education,” the report said. “Interest payments on public debt are...
The Vatican Knows an ‘Industrial Revolution’ When It Sees One
The Atlantic
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June 20, 2025
The pope didn’t take long to explain why he picked the name Leo. Two days after his election, he cited his inspiration: the preceding Pope Leo, who led the Church while the West confronted the social and economic disruptions of the Industrial...
The dark truth behind Irelandâs mass grave of 796 babies: How church and state conspired to abuse women and bury the innocent
Natural News
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June 19, 2025
The dark truth behind Ireland’s mass grave of 796 babies: How church and state conspired to abuse women and bury the innocent Beneath the quiet green fields of Tuam, Ireland, lies a secret so horrifying it shakes the very foundations of faith and...
(Watch) Vatican documentary traces Pope Leo XIV’s mission in Peru
Aleteia
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June 20, 2025
The film will be released at 5:00 p.m. Rome time across Vatican media platforms in Spanish, English, and Italian, including the Vatican News YouTube channel. Here is a link to watch the documentary. Article explaining the production is below. On...
Pope Leo issues stark warning about AI’s effects on children
The Independent
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June 20, 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...
Pope Leo warns AI could put children’s intellectual and spiritual development at risk
Irish Independent
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Pope Leo XIV has warned that artificial intelligence could affect the intellectual, neurological and spiritual development of young people as he pressed one of the priorities of his young pontificate.The first American pope sent a message to a...
Pope Leo calls for an ethical AI framework in a message to tech execs gathering at the Vatican
KESQ-TV - California
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June 20, 2025
By Clare Duffy and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV says tech companies developing artificial intelligence should abide by an “ethical criterion” that respects human dignity. AI must take “into account the well-being of the human person...
Pope Leo flags AI’s impact on children’s intellectual and spiritual development
Breaking News from Ireland
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Pope Leo XIV has warned that artificial intelligence could negatively impact the intellectual, neurological and spiritual development of young people as he pressed one of the priorities of his young pontificate. History’s first American pope sent...
Galway Diocese confirms removal of Bishop Eamonn Casey's remains from cathedral crypt
Galway Beo
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July 19, 2025
The remains of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey have been removed from the crypt of Galway Cathedral, the Diocese of Galway has confirmed. The announcement was made in a statement issued this morning by the Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and...
Gaza parish attack, Marian devotion & vocations, St. Thomas More exhumation | Week in Review
OSV News
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July 18, 2025
2 Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas and others across the nation are offering material and spiritual aid to those impacted by the devastating July 4 flash floods in...