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Pope Leo’s Vatican backs New Zealand removal of Traditional Latin Mass Community
LifeSite
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August 16, 2025
A major decision by Pope Leo XIV is sparking controversy as bishops move to tighten restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass in New Zealand. The panel covers a Catholic school scandal where parents were punished for challenging immoral...
Vatican Ranked as the World's Most Crowded Tourist Spot
Tempo.co
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August 10, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Vatican has been named as the most crowded tourist destination in the world, according to a study initiated by the safari company Go2Africa. The smallest country in the world has an extraordinary tourist-to-local ratio with...
Dispatch from Syria’s Christian strongholds: A new government, a full political spectrum
Atlantic Council
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August 25, 2025
On the morning of July 6, Christian parishioners in Syria’s small coastal city of Safita awoke to find death threats outside their churches. They were signed “Saraya Ansar Sunnah,” the same terrorist group that just two weeks earlier had claimed...
Did Our Lady of Fatima warn against Vatican II and the New Mass in the Third Secret?
LifeSite
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August 15, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — In recent weeks LifeSite has reported two news items that revived once agin the debate about the apparition of Our Lady in Fatima and its still hidden message that pertains to our current crisis in the Church and in the world. The...
The Vatican Museums announce that Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel will be restored in 2026
Zenit
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August 15, 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 08.15.2025).- When Michelangelo’s monumental “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel undergoes extraordinary maintenance in early 2026, it will not merely be an intervention on pigment and plaster. It will be a decisive act of...
TEN MINUTES with Catherine Leen
The Irish Post
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August 25, 2025
CATHERINE LEEN is a Dublin born writer, documentary maker and oral historian. Mona & Mimi, her first full length play about Mona Best and Mimi Smith (John Lennon’s aunt) is being performed at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool on September 3-4, 2025....
Faith and science align on Africa climate resilience at Vatican-led summit
Forests News
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August 15, 2025
MAST: A new framework for action A key highlight of the summit was the endorsement of the Mitigation, Adaptation and Societal Transformation (MAST) framework – a three-pillar strategy designed to move Africa beyond reactive responses and into a...
Vatican astronomer praises NZ's dark sky sanctuaries
1News
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The director of the Vatican's astronomical observatory has talked up the value of "dark-sky" sanctuaries, ahead of a trip to visit to a sanctuary near Lake Tekapo. The Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, which ranges across the lower...
Leo's Vatican picks?
The Pillar
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August 14, 2025
As the Roman summer nears its end and the pope takes a final summer weekend at Castel Gandolfo, speculation is mounting about possible changes in the Vatican curia. Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the College of Cardinals. Credit: Vatican...
Traditionalist Catholic society approved for Vatican pilgrimage despite canonical irregularity
The Gazette - Colorado
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The Priestly Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic society that has experienced a troubled relationship with the church hierarchy since the 1970s, has been approved for a pilgrimage to the Vatican later this month. The society's...
Pope Leo XIV marks Ukraine’s Independence Day with prayers for peace
Dialog - Delaware
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August 25, 2025
Marking Ukraine’s Independence Day, Pope Leo XIV pledged his prayers for the Ukrainian people in a message to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and encouraged Catholics to respond to Ukrainian religious leaders’ request for prayers for peace Aug. 24....
'It costs us more to visit York Minster than the Vatican'
BBC
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Seb CheerBBC News, Yorkshire ShareSave Alin Hickey and Kay Rogers visited York from Australia and opted to tour different attractions because of the Minster's entry fee York Minster is one of the leading landmarks of the city - a symbol of both...
Cardinal Burke criticizes Mass changes after Vatican II, says continuity with Latin Mass is ‘so strained’
LifeSite
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August 14, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Raymond Burke said that the Holy Mass was “radically reduced” after Vatican II with the “stripping away” of “beautiful elements” in the Traditional Latin Mass and praised the “transcendence” of the older rite in an...
Vatican ties with Azerbaijan under fire amid accusations of cultural genocide
Religion News Service
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August 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As President Donald Trump hosts peace talks this week with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet states that have been in conflict for decades, Armenian activists continue to raise the alarm about the...
Pope Leo Will Receive a Pro-LGBTQ+ Catholic Group at the Vatican for the First Time
them. - New York
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August 14, 2025
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. Pope Leo XVI will receive a pro-LGBTQ+ Catholic reform organization during celebrations in October, the first time the group has been invited “in this form,” the...
UK's Chagos Islands deal 'significant victory' - Pope
Star
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Pope Leo XIV met members of the Chagos Refugees Group in Vatican City/SCREENGRAB Pope Leo XIV has said he is "delighted" the UK has agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Speaking to a delegation of 15 refugees from Chagos, Pope Leo said...
Michael Knowles Corrects False History Surrounding The Vatican And The Nazis
Daily Wire
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August 14, 2025
Faced with a choice between hating Pius XII for supposedly supporting Hitler and excusing Pius XII for supposedly supporting Hitler, there is a third option: the truth. The truth, says Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, is that Pope Pius XII didn’t...
Hospital pediátrico del Vaticano recibe a más pacientes de Gaza
The Leaven - Kansas
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August 14, 2025
Una ambulancia se acercó a un avión militar italiano en el aeropuerto Ciampino de Roma la noche del 13 de agosto para trasladar a niños de Gaza al hospital pediátrico Bambino Gesù, propiedad del Vaticano, para recibir tratamiento. (Foto...
Brooklyn Bishop Emeritus DiMarzio slams Vatican payouts to accusers
Brooklyn Eagle - New York
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August 14, 2025
BOROUGHWIDE — BROOKLYN BISHOP EMERITUS Nicholas DiMarzio on Aug. 8 sharply criticized a large settlement paid to two accusers after a two-year canonical investigation by the Vatican found no evidence of sexual abuse, according to Catholic News...
Vatican overrules Canadian bishop’s decision to close parish, again
The Pillar
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August 8, 2025
For the second time in 15 months the Vatican overturned a Canadian archbishop's decision to close a small parish, thus continuing a three-year dispute between parishioners and the archbishop. Parishioners at Holy Rosary Parish in Portugal Cove-St....