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VATICAN/JUBILEE - The Pope to Catholic digital influencers: In online spaces, always look for the “suffering flesh of Christ” in every brother and sister
Fides
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July 29, 2025
Tuesday, 29 July 2025 Vatican Media Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "In online spaces, always look for the “suffering flesh of Christ” in every brother and sister." This is the mission that Pope Leo entrusted to the digital missionaries and...
Vatican permits exclusively private devotion for alleged apparitions at Italian mountain
Catholic News Agency
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July 29, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 29, 2025 / 10:47 am The Vatican’s doctrinal office has expressed reservations about an alleged Marian apparition site in southern Italy, permitting only private devotion and warning that claims that a deceased woman has...
Vatican Communication Office Urges Two-State Solution as France Backs Palestinian Statehood
ACI Africa
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July 28, 2025
While Pope Francis was the first of the popes to use the term “State of Palestine” upon his 2014 visit to the Holy land, Tornielli pointed out that Pope Benedict XVI affirmed both that “the State of Israel has the right to exist and enjoy peace...
Bishops, theologians, and authority in the Catholic Church
The Catholic Weekly
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July 30, 2025
Ralph Martin giving his thoughts on the Conclave. Screenshot: Renewal Ministries/Youtube. The recent removal of prominent theologian Ralph Martin from his teaching role at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit has brought renewed attention to a...
Pope Leo makes surprise appearance as 120,000 youth gather in Rome for Vatican jubilee
Malay Mail
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July 30, 2025
VATICAN CITY, July 30 — Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered yesterday in Rome for the Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth—an event that takes place every 25 years. The week-long event is taking place...
Vatican cardinal urges Catholic influencers to be ‘witnesses’ in digital world
Interaksyon
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July 29, 2025
ROME— A top Vatican official, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Monday urged “online missionaries” to move beyond content creation and become true witnesses in the digital world. In an age where misinformation, polarization and isolation often dominate...
Holy See says two-state solution is the ‘only viable and equitable path’ forward for Israel, Palestine
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 31, 2025
At a United Nations conference in New York this week, the Holy See reaffirmed its longstanding support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling it the “only viable and equitable path” to a just and lasting peace....
Pope Leo condemns vile Isis terror attack on church which left 49 Christian worshippers dead
GB News
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July 30, 2025
Pope Leo has come out to condemn a brutal Isis attack on a church which left 49 Christian worshippers dead. The pontiff, alongside the UN, the US's State Department and a leading Christian group, have all reacted with fury to the mass killings -...
Niger : un tiers des catholiques ont fui leur village
FSSPX.NEWS
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Il y a deux ans, le 26 juillet 2023, le Niger connaissait un coup d’Etat militaire : le président était arrêté par la garde présidentielle, puis destitué et les institutions politiques ainsi que la Constitution sont suspendues. Le Conseil national...
The Vatican’s Catholic influencer Jubilee is worth celebrating—and scrutinizing
America Magazine
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July 29, 2025
With smartphones and ring lights in hand, a new group of pilgrims arrived at the Vatican this week. The Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers, part of the church’s celebration of the Jubilee Year of Hope, marks the growing...
All Set for 20th Plenary Assembly of Catholic Bishops in Africa with Focus on “hope, reconciliation, peace”
ACI Africa
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July 31, 2025
One of the highlights of July 30 was the collective visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial by Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Women and Men Religious, and lay delegates. “It was a moment of deep emotion,” said the SEACM Communications Officer, adding,...
New secular study finds Vatican II triggered a decline in Catholic Mass attendance worldwide
LifeSite
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July 29, 2025
News Economic research found that religious service attendance in Catholic nations significantly decreased compared with all other countries beginning in 1965, the final year of Vatican II. (LifeSiteNews) — A newly published secular study found...
Synodalité : rapport partiel des groupes de travail (1)
FSSPX.NEWS
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Il a été récemment rapporté que ces structures, qui devaient initialement rendre leur copie pour le mois de juin 2025, avaient obtenu un délai supplémentaire courant jusqu’à la fin de l’année. Par ailleurs, le pape Léon XIV a ajouté deux nouveaux...
Vatican reports good profit on investments and real estate
Hurriyet Daily News
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VATICAN CITY The office that manages Vatican investments and real estate reported a profit of 62 million euros (around $63 million) in 2024, up 16 million euros from 2023. It’s one of the best results in years and a bit of good news as Pope Leo...
Catholic Church moves to Strengthen the Ministry of Exorcism in Malawi
Nyasa Times
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July 29, 2025
In a landmark initiative to strengthen the church’s pastoral care and deepen its spiritual outreach, the Malawi Conference of Catholic Bishops (MCCB) has launched a five-day national training for exorcists. Organized in collaboration with the...
Vatican's real estate investments turn a profit amid an ongoing financial crisis. Here's how…
Mint
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July 29, 2025
The Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), which manages the Vatican's investments and real estate, on July 28 reported a profit of 62 million euros (around $63 million) in 2024, up 16 million euros from 2023, according to an...
Tackling Africa’s Wildlife Crimes From The Religious Front
Religion Unplugged
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The Book of Genesis 1:26 says, “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that...
Pope Leo XIV holds Jubilee of Youth at the Vatican
KYMA - Arizona
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July 29, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CBS, KYMA/KECY) - Pope Leo XIV is welcoming more than a half-a-million young people to the Vatican this week for the Jubilee of Youth. Americans are among pilgrims from nearly 150 countries who've traveled to Rome for the event. Pope...
Vatican reports 2024 asset management earnings of 62 million euros
Catholic News Agency
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July 28, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 17:33 pm The Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) — the body responsible for managing the properties and investments of the small city state — presented on July 28 its financial statement for the...
Vatican Stalls Return Of Stolen Treasures From Former European Colonies
Religion Unplugged
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ROME — A leading academic who has called for the return of precious artifacts “stolen by Pope Pius XI and his missionaries” from Indigenous First Nations communities has urged Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican Museums to “rethink their colonial...