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Cardinal Makrickas takes the helm of the Roman basilica of St. Mary Major: the oldest Marian church in the West
Zenit
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July 7, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 07.07.2025).- On July 4, Pope Leo XIV officially acknowledged the transition in leadership at the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, marking the end of Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko’s tenure and welcoming his successor,...
Synod office provides guidelines to help local churches, bishops implement synodality
Detroit Catholic
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July 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ Local churches and bishops worldwide will be instrumental in helping implement the proposals and foster the spirit of the 2024 final document of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, the Vatican synod office said. To more...
American Peruvian Pope Souvenirs Stalled as Vatican Retailers Await Sacred License
LatinAmerican Post
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July 8, 2025
With pilgrims flooding Rome for the Jubilee Year, souvenir stands near St. Peter’s Square are stocked with every pope except the one currently leading the Catholic Church. Two months after his election, León XIV’s official image still hasn’t been...
Vatican: A French bishop succeeds Cardinal O’Malley as head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
Zenit
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July 6, 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.05.2025).- Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the new President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, succeeding Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap., who...
Limerick Bishop honoured to be appointed to key Vatican position
Live95
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All Live95 News [Via Bishop Leahy] He was chosen for his experience in interreligious engagement. A Limerick Bishop has been appointed to a role in the Vatican. In a significant announcement from the Vatican, Pope Leo has appointed Bishop Brendan...
Iranian Ambassador to the Vatican asks Pope Leo XIV in letter to defend Khamenei against USA and Israel
Zenit
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July 7, 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.07.2025).- In a striking appeal that merges geopolitical tension with interreligious diplomacy, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to the Holy See, Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari, has written directly to Pope Leo...
Korean Church celebrates 100th anniversary of martyrs’ beatification
Vatican News
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July 8, 2025
The Archdiocese of Seoul celebrates the centenary of the beatification of the 79 Korean martyrs of the Gihae and Byeong-o persecutions in the 1800s with a Mass, the release of a new report and a history exhibition. by Vatican News On Saturday,...
Pope Leo XIV and a world in the measure of children
Vatican News
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July 8, 2025
Two months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, several symbolic images from his papacy have begun to circulate, among them an image of the Pope posing for a photo with a young girl offering him a handmade drawing. By Alessandro Gisotti Many of the...
What Is Jessica Shepard’s Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality? Exploring her Family Roots and Background
Essentially Sports
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July 8, 2025
Who doesn’t love Coach Carter? Jessica Shepard certainly does, as it’s her favorite movie, a fitting choice for an elite WNBA player. And what an incredibly loyal player she’s been for the Lynx throughout her time in the league. Despite limited...
Church adds Mass ‘for care of creation’ to missal
Catholic News
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July 6, 2025
Pope Leo XIV at the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo, home of the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology project Vatican Media) Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican announced that a new formulary...
Church in Korea unveils remains of four 19th-century martyrs
Catholic News
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July 6, 2025
A portrait of French Bishop Laurent Joseph Marius Imbert (1796-1839) from Paris Foreign Mission Society, who served in Korea and became a martyr (UCA News/Namu Wiki) Church officials in South Korea have unveiled the remains of four martyrs who...
Pope Leo appoints Bishop of Limerick to key Vatican department
Irish Examiner
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July 8, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Bishop of Limerick as a member of a key Vatican department.Bishop Brendan Leahy has been selected by the pontiff into the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The 65-year-old has been serving as Bishop of Limerick...
Barron: With no clergy-penitent exception, WA abuse law threatens religious liberty
Catholic Star Herald - New Jersey
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July 8, 2025
By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) — A contested Washington state law that would require priests to violate the seal of confession to report abuse “represents an egregious violation of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Bishop...
The Pope at Vatican Radio: A Symbolic Visit
FSSPX.NEWS
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The high antennas of Santa Maria di Galeria (northwest of Rome) were particularly honored on this June 19, 2025, and for good reason: it had been 34 years since a pope had visited the shortwave transmission system that allows the voice of the...
Parishioners battle diocese over closure of historic Brooklyn church
Religion News Service
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July 7, 2025
NEW YORK (RNS) — Around 20 parishioners gathered at the Jesuit Community Chapel in Brooklyn on Thursday evening (July 3). The chairs were arranged in a circle, and the mood was purposeful but warm. Two community members acted as translators in...
AI, Irreality and the Liberal Educational Project
Inside Higher Ed
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I work at Marquette University. As a Roman Catholic, Jesuit university, we’re called to be an academic community that, as Pope John Paul II wrote, “scrutinize[s] reality with the methods proper to each academic discipline.” That’s a tall order,...
Cardinal McElroy criticizes Trump’s immigration policies
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 7, 2025
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy condemned President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies in a July 1 interview with CNN, calling mass deportation efforts “morally repugnant.” “This is simply not only incompatible with Catholic teaching, it’s...
The Church, the Jews, and the Development of Doctrine
Public Discourse
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July 8, 2025
Since Vatican II in the mid 1960s, the Catholic Church seems to be following a very different line of appreciation for and engagement with the Jewish people, from a long tradition of anti-Jewish sentiment and actions, to now affirming and...
3 North Americans named to Vatican dicasteries for ecumenism, interreligious dialogue
Florida Catholic
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VATICAN CITY | Three North Americans are among recent appointees to Vatican dicasteries that address issues of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. On July 3, Pope Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis and Cardinal Frank...
Bishop Barron: Without an exception, WA abuse law violates religious liberty
OSV News
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July 7, 2025
(OSV News) — A contested Washington state law that would require priests to violate the seal of confession to report abuse “represents an egregious violation of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Bishop Robert E. Barron of...