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Pope Leo XIV marks 71st birthday with opening of water exhibit at Vatican Library
The pontiff launched the “AQVA Catastrophe and Wonder” exhibit on Sept. 14. […]
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Pope Leo XIV repeals COVID-era pay cuts to Vatican cardinals
Pope Francis had instituted the cuts as an austerity measure in 2021. […]
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Pope Leo XIV remembers 9/11 victims, calls for peace and forgiveness
The pontiff marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with prayers for the dead and those still bearing its wounds, while his Angelus reflection stressed that forgiveness is indispensable for peace. […]
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Vatican vegetable garden goes 100% organic
The move to biological farming techniques has been underway for several years in response to Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. […]
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Synod study group proposes broader role for Catholics in bishops’ ad limina visits
Study Group 7 says bishops’ visits to Rome should be instruments of missionary conversion, communal discernment, and greater co-responsibility in the Church. […]
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Pope to new bishops: The most important mission is to ‘remain with Jesus’
The Holy Father received 147 bishops from five continents, participants in a formation course in Rome for new bishops. […]
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Synod group calls for gender-equality mechanisms in Church workplaces
The final report also proposes a greater role for women religious in selecting bishops who oversee consecrated life and clearer agreements between dioceses and religious institutes. […]
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Love is not a feeling but a decision, Pope Leo XIV tells couples
In the foreword to a new edition of the youth catechism YouCat, on the subject of love and marriage, Pope Leo XIV goes to the heart of the vocation to love: serving through a generous gift of self. […]
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Pope Leo XIV warns of Western ‘paradox’ on individual freedom
The pontiff said people can feel less free to be themselves even as autonomy is increasingly treated as absolute. […]
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Pope Leo XIV: Respect for human dignity ‘excludes self-centered isolation’
Addressing pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, the pope continued his catechetical cycle dedicated to the Second Vatican Council’s constitution Gaudium et Spes. […]