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Slovak Church Faces Deepening Divide Over Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans

Axcess News · August 24, 2025

Slovakia’s Catholic Church faces internal divisions as clergy and believers debate the Vatican’s approval of blessings for same-sex couples and new proposals on gender education. Withdraw Support for Fiducia Supplicans The controversy intensified...

Pope Leo's Vatican Apartment 'Housemates': What We Know

Newsweek · August 22, 2025

Pope Leo XIV is set to take up residence in the Apostolic Palace next month, where he will live with several other people, Italian media reports. The pontiff plans to share his renovated papal apartment with three or four other Augustinians,...

Pope Leo to live in Vatican ‘flatshare’ when he moves into papal apartments

The Independent · August 20, 2025

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

One amputee, another with brain damage, and another malnourished: Vatican welcomes three children affected by the war in Gaza

Zenit · August 20, 2025

(ZENIT News / Rome, 08.19.2025).- Late on the night of August 13, a military transport plane touched down at Rome’s Ciampino airport carrying a fragile cargo: three children from Gaza, each bearing the scars of war. They were accompanied by their...

Vatican pediatric hospital welcomes more Gaza patients

The Catholic Register · August 14, 2025

As the Israeli-Hamas conflict continues, three more children arrived in Italy on a military transport plane late Aug. 13 for treatment at the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital. A six-month-old baby boy, who already had undergone an...

Hospital pediátrico del Vaticano recibe a más pacientes de Gaza

The Leaven - Kansas · 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...

Vatican Pediatric Hospital Welcomes More Patients From Gaza

The Tablet - New York · August 14, 2025

An ambulance pulls up to an Italian military plane at Rome’s Ciampino airport late Aug. 13 to transfer children from Gaza to the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital for treatment. (Photo: CNS/courtesy Bambino Gesù hospital) by Cindy...

Vatican to Examine Central Louisiana’s ‘Little Cajun Saint’ for Potential Sainthood

Red River Radio - Louisiana · August 13, 2025

There’s an unfolding story decades in the making, with its roots in rural Central Louisiana, eventually leading to the very steps of Vatican City inside Rome. This story involves the powerful claim of sainthood based on the deeds of a 12-year-old...

Vatican backs bishop’s order to expel Latin Mass community from New Zealand diocese

LifeSite · August 13, 2025

(LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has sided with a New Zealand bishop who has evicted a traditional Mass community out of his diocese, despite the flourishing order strongly denying any wrongdoing. On August 10, Bishop Michael Gielen of the Diocese of...

Vatican-ordered investigation underway in Lima

The Pillar · August 12, 2025

The Vatican has commissioned an investigation into allegations of coverup and financial misconduct made against Cardinal Carlos Castillo, archbishop of Lima, according to senior archdiocesan sources in Peru. Cathedral of St. John, Lima, Peru....

Vatican Official Proposes Creation of “missionary welcome centres” in the West for Incoming African Priests

ACI Africa · August 12, 2025

Formation for Priests from Africa must move beyond academic preparation, and must include training in sensitivity, cultural dialogue, pastoral flexibility, and a deep commitment to listening, the Archbishop said, and added, “Only then can the...

‘Do Not Be Afraid’: Young Influencers Carry Middle Eastern Christians’ Voice to the Vatican

Media Line · August 16, 2025

At the Catholic Church’s first Digital Jubilee in Rome, social media missionaries from Lebanon and the US shared their message of hope. Every quarter century, the Catholic Church marks the Jubilee, a sacred season rooted in the Old Testament...

Vatican Allows New Zealand Ban on Scottish Congregation After Alleged Illicit Exorcisms

National Catholic Register ·

The Vatican’s rejection of the appeal, the bishop noted, means the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer remains under the ban. A religious institute in New Zealand has lost its appeal to the Vatican to continue public ministry in the Diocese of...

Maha is backing this ‘natural’ infertility treatment. Is it the right’s path to limiting IVF?

The Guardian · August 23, 2025

Illustration: Mel Haasch/The Guardian For Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”. After two years of trying to conceive, Erica and her husband had no idea why they could not have a baby. Doctors said only that...

Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic legislators to look to Augustine’s ‘City of God’

Catholic News Agency · August 23, 2025

Vatican City, Aug 23, 2025 / 09:30 am Pope Leo XIV on Saturday urged Catholic lawmakers to draw inspiration from St. Augustine’s “City of God” as they navigate shifting global politics, warning against reducing the idea of human flourishing to...

Law Graduate, 22, Dies Less Than 24 Hours After Suffering Allergic Reaction During Routine CT Scan By Kimberlee Speakman

People - New York ·

NEED TO KNOW A 22-year-old woman died less than 24 hours after suffering an allergic reaction during a CT scan Leticia Paul's aunt said her niece had been undergoing a routine checkup, as she had a history of kidney stones The hospital where the...

Vatican under fire for alleged 'skeleton key' money laundering scheme

Irish Star · August 11, 2025

The Vatican has been accused of using a payroll service to unlawfully influence bank transfers in an alleged money laundering scheme. According to the city state's former top financial cop, who was fired in 2017, the Vatican's payroll service,...

Vatican leans more towards Palestine than Israel? Not strictly speaking

Brussels Signal · August 11, 2025

When asked to comment on France’s decision in July to recognise the State of Palestine, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that the Holy See has recognised Palestine “da mo’” – a colloquial expression to say, “It has been quite a while now.” For...

The Vatican Museums announce that Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel will be restored in 2026

Zenit · 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...

Traditionalist Catholic society approved for Vatican pilgrimage despite canonical irregularity

The Gazette - Colorado ·

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...