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What Is the Difference Between the Holy See, Vatican City, and the Roman Curia? Cardinal Ghirlanda Explains

Zenit · June 24, 2025

(ZENIT News – SIR / Rome, 23.06.2025).- On the occasion of the Holy See’s Jubilee, Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda clarified the differences between the Holy See and Vatican City State and reflected on the reform of the Curia. «Vatican diplomacy...

Pope Leo and Libero Milone: Will anything change in the ‘other’ Vatican financial trial?

The Pillar · June 23, 2025

In one week, a Vatican City court will reconvene to consider the next phase of appeal in a lawsuit brought by the first and former Vatican auditor general against his controversial dismissal from office eight years ago. Interior of the hearing...

Flushing man presents symbolic pennant to Pope Leo XIV during Vatican Jubilee

QNS - New York · June 23, 2025

Victor Mooney of Flushing presents a commemorative pennant to Pope Leo XIV during a Jubilee Audience at the Vatican. Credit: Vatican Media A Flushing man with a long record of endurance-driven pilgrimages for peace, faith and remembrance is once...

Pope Leo XIV's message to the politicians gathered at the Vatican for the Jubilee

Rome Reports · June 23, 2025

This is how Giorgia Meloni arrived at the Vatican. It wasn’t for a private meeting, but to take part in the Jubilee of Government Leaders. This was the reaction of the politicians upon seeing the Pope… In his speech, the Pope was direct. He called...

Report commissioned by the Vatican calls for action to tackle international debt

Church Times · June 23, 2025

GOVERNMENTS and international institutions could prevent multiple future crises by restructuring or forgiving the debts of developing countries, according to a report commissioned by the late Pope Francis for the Roman Catholic Church’s current...

3 very interesting challenges from the Pope to politicians and rulers at a meeting at the Vatican

Zenit · June 22, 2025

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.21.2025).- On the morning of Saturday, June 21, the Pope received the participants in the Jubilee of Rulers in a special audience in the Hall of Blessings of the Vatican Basilica. Among those present was the Prime...

Vatican Alarm on Mideast War

London Daily Digital · June 15, 2025

Pope Leo XIV appealed for “responsibility and reason and commitment to build a safer world, free from nuclear threats.” Pope Leo XIV on Saturday expressed concern over the Israel-Iran war and continued armed exchanges between the two sides over...

AI, Irreality and the Liberal Educational Project

Inside Higher Ed ·

I work at Marquette University. As a Roman Catholic, Jesuit university, we’re called to be an academic community that, as Pope John Paul II wrote, “scrutinize[s] reality with the methods proper to each academic discipline.” That’s a tall order,...

New study reveals the rosary rivals modern meditation for mental health benefits

Catholic News Agency · June 21, 2025

Brussels, Belgium, Jun 21, 2025 / 08:00 am In an era where mindfulness apps dominate smartphones and meditation studios populate urban corners, a new groundbreaking international study suggests that the ancient Catholic prayer practice of praying...

Vatican bank reports increased profits and charitable work

Catholic News · June 12, 2025

The tower of the Institute for Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank (CNS/Paul Haring) The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank, reported increased profits in 2024 and gave a slightly larger...

Alex Collier reveals earthâs hidden history: Extraterrestrial contact, lost civilizations, and the Vaticanâs cover-up

Natural News · June 20, 2025

Alex Collier reveals earth’s hidden history: Extraterrestrial contact, lost civilizations, and the Vatican’s cover-up Suppressed Human History: Alex Collier reveals how institutions like the Smithsonian and Vatican hide evidence of advanced...

Vatican bank reports increased profits, charitable giving

Catholic Review - Maryland · June 11, 2025

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank, reported increased profits in 2024 and gave a slightly larger dividend check to Pope Francis, who used the entire amount for charity. The bank...

Finance experts launch report at Vatican on foreign debt relief

OSV News · June 20, 2025

“Today, 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health, and 2.1 billion live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on education,” the report said. “Interest payments on public debt are...

Developing countries ‘need more debt relief’ to fund education and health

The Guardian · June 20, 2025

Developing countries need a fresh round of debt relief, to prevent money urgently needed for health and education being diverted to creditors, according to a major new report commissioned by the late Pope Francis. The Jubilee report, produced by a...

The Vatican Knows an ‘Industrial Revolution’ When It Sees One

The Atlantic · June 20, 2025

The pope didn’t take long to explain why he picked the name Leo. Two days after his election, he cited his inspiration: the preceding Pope Leo, who led the Church while the West confronted the social and economic disruptions of the Industrial...

Pope Leo calls for an ethical AI framework in a message to tech execs gathering at the Vatican

KESQ-TV - California · June 20, 2025

By Clare Duffy and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV says tech companies developing artificial intelligence should abide by an “ethical criterion” that respects human dignity. AI must take “into account the well-being of the human person...

How Canada’s clergy navigate the pastoral challenges of assisted suicide

The Pillar · July 7, 2025

Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD,...

Texas flood death toll rises to 70 as families search camp wreckage for missing girls

EMS1 - Texas · July 6, 2025

By Jim Vertuno and John Seewer Associated Press KERRVILLE, Texas — Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their...

Vatican website removes pictures of artwork created by priest accused of abuse

Crux Now · June 9, 2025

Images of artwork created by a disgraced celebrity cleric accused of serial sexual and other abuse have disappeared from official Vatican Media websites without explanation, almost a year after the head of the Vatican’s communications outfit...

Lessons from the Vatican, a Muslim view

Daily Trust · June 18, 2025

Recently, Pope Leo XIV appealed against the recent senseless killings of people in Benue State, Nigeria. He said: “On the night of 13th/14th June, in the town of Yelwata in the Guma Local Government Area, in Benue State in Nigeria, a terrible...