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Match made in heaven: couple on Cloud 9 after Pope blessing
Winnipeg Free Press
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August 25, 2025
A Winnipeg bride realized a dream of a lifetime when she and her husband received a personal blessing from Pope Leo in Rome. Bénédicte LeMaître, 31, and Stéphan Kosowski, 38, who were married on July 25, got tickets from the Vatican to sit in the...
Vatican asked to defrock Polish priest charged with killing homeless man
1News
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The archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, has asked the Vatican to defrock a priest charged with the killing of a 68-year-old homeless man who was beaten with an axe and set on fire. Prosecutors charged the priest, only identified as Mirosław M in line...
Tourist 'humiliated' as Vatican guards 'make her wear a sheet'
Irish Star
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August 5, 2025
A woman claims she was left "humiliated" after a visit to the famed Vatican City, which includes sites like the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel, resulted in her being handed a sheet by security guards to "cover up." Sabrina Almeida traveled to...
Senate Confirms Leading Catholic Activist As Vatican Ambassador
Daily Wire
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August 5, 2025
President Donald Trump’s new ambassador to the Holy See was confirmed over the weekend. Brian Burch, former president of CatholicVote, one of the country’s largest Catholic advocacy groups, was confirmed by the Senate as the United States...
Vatican calls for global push for 2-state solution as death toll in Gaza continues to rise
Middle East Monitor
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July 27, 2025
The Vatican on Saturday called on the international community to work actively toward a two-state solution, saying the worsening crisis in Gaza has made the need for a just and lasting political resolution urgent, Anadolu reports. The Holy See...
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Vatican asked to defrock Polish priest charged with shocking murder of homeless man
Firstpost
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July 27, 2025
In Poland, the archbishop of Warsaw has requested that the Vatican defrock a priest who is accused of killing a 68-year-old homeless man by beating him with an axe and setting him on fire. The priest, who was only identified as Mirosław M. in...
Does the Vatican recognize the visions of the Italian man? The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith responds
Rome Reports
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August 6, 2025
This is Michelino, an Italian cook, but also a supposed visionary. In 2009, he claimed that Livia, his mother-in-law who had died three months earlier, began appearing to him in dreams. She told him her soul was in heaven and encouraged him to...
President Zelenskyy Shares Letter from Pope Leo XIV on Ukraine’s Independence Day
ACI Africa
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August 24, 2025
Vatican City, 24 August, 2025 / 7:10 pm (ACI Africa). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked his country’s Independence Day on Sunday by posting a letter from Pope Leo XIV in which the pope assured him of prayers for Ukrainians suffering...
Woman 'humiliated' after Vatican guards 'make her cover up with a sheet'
Irish Mirror
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August 5, 2025
A woman claims she was left feeling "humiliated" during a visit to the famous Vatican City, where she planned to explore attractions like the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel, after security personnel handed her a sheet and told her to "cover...
Stateside: Monday, Aug. 25, 2025
Michigan Public - Michigan
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The Trump administration is changing personnel in key federal offices responsible for generating economic data. We sat down with Betsey Stevenson, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan and a faculty research...
Una voz ‘Imperial’: premian a mexicana como mejor cantante católica nueva en el Vaticano
Texas Catholic
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August 5, 2025
Por Constanza Morales Revista Católica Dallas Nunca en lo más oscuro de los momentos que vivió luego del accidente que casi le cuesta la vida en 2022, Carolina Imperial hubiera imaginado que la historia de su fe, conquistaría el mundo de la música...
Pope Leo XIV visits a Spanish pilgrim hospitalized at the Vatican’s pediatric hospital
Rome Reports
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August 5, 2025
Pope Leo XIV asked for prayers for a Spanish pilgrim before a crowd of one million young people during the prayer vigil at Tor Vergata. POPE LEO XIV I would like to ask for your prayers for another friend; a young Spanish boy, Ignacio Gonzálvez,...
Pope Leo XIV “wholehearted” support for the Chagos Refugees Group
MercoPress
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Monday, August 25th 2025 - 22:38 UTC Pope Leo commended “the determination of the Chagossian people, particularly that of the women, in their peaceful struggle for their rights.” (@Vatican Media) In a meeting with members of the Chagos Refugees...
Fight to keep St. Dom's open could end up at the Vatican, supporters say
WMTW 8 - Maine
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August 5, 2025
The fight to keep St. Dominic Academy's high school in Auburn open continues.As Maine's Total Coverage reported in June, the Catholic Diocese of Portland gave final approval to a decision to close the school for good at the end of the 2024-2025...
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...
Senior Vatican official to open education conference
Catholic News
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August 4, 2025
Sr Nathalie Becquart XMCJ (Supplied) Sr Nathalie Becquart XMCJ, the Vatican’s Undersecretary for the General Secretariat of the Synod, will bring a message of hope to an anticipated 1500 delegates at the 2025 Australian Catholic Education...
Former CatholicVote president confirmed as Vatican ambassador
World - North Carolina
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August 4, 2025
The U.S. Senate on Saturday confirmed Brian Burch as the next ambassador to the Vatican in a 49-44 party-line vote. A few senators from each party did not vote. Burch is the former president of CatholicVote, an advocacy organization that backed...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after immigration surrender
OSV News
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August 25, 2025
(OSV News) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident at the center of a high-profile immigration case, surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore on Aug. 25, and faces possible deportation to Uganda, a...
DJ claims she was forced to cover curves with bedsheets in a humiliating Vatican visit
Daily Star
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August 4, 2025
A woman claims she was left feeling "humiliated" during a visit to the world-famous Vatican City after she ended up being handed a sheet by security staff and told to "cover up". Sabrina Almeida had travelled to Rome and believed she was dressed...
Radio Interview: The Vatican Observatory
Catholic Review - Maryland
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August 4, 2025
The heavens are full of wonder, and the astronomers who work for the Vatican Observatory probably know that better than most people on earth. In this episode of Catholic Review Radio, Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Jesuit Father Paul Gabor,...