Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
With Pope Leo XIV prioritizing the issue of artificial intelligence, one expert warned OSV News that generative AI poses serious — and largely unaddressed — threats to child safety, by accelerating the creation and distribution of child sex abuse material, or CSAM.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
After beginning the vigil with prayers, the pope engaged in a dialogue with several young people who asked him three questions.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning for those things that only come from God, Pope Leo XIV told young people.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News, Youth Ministry
In a message of solidarity and peace, Pope Leo XIV said the Catholic Church stands with young people suffering in war-torn areas, including Gaza and Ukraine.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
While the Catholic Church has consistently voiced major ethical concerns over in vitro fertilization, or IVF, there are now many additional ethical issues to address as modern science continues to explore areas of human reproduction, including with the creation of “three parent” embryos in an effort to prevent mitochondrial disease.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Scouting, World News
The modern educational toolkit, of both teachers and students, now includes the use of artificial intelligence. Experts and teachers from coast-to-coast told OSV News AI is poised to transform Catholic education.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
In a rare Saturday session, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brian Burch, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, in a vote of 49-44 along party lines Aug. 2.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Addressing an estimated 1 million young people, Pope Leo XIV urged them to forge genuine relationships rooted in Christ rather than ephemeral online connections that can reduce individuals to a commodity.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Catholic immigration advocates praised the bipartisan effort behind the reintroduction of legislation in Congress that would give legal status to some eligible immigrants who currently lack legal authorization to be in the U.S.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
Whether Planned Parenthood will ultimately be stripped of its federal funding remained in question amid ongoing lawsuits over a provision in President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda that would cut those funds for one year.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News
The Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations’ cultural agency comes just weeks ahead of a Catholic UNESCO World Heritage site anniversary celebration — and the exit stands to erode historic preservation efforts more broadly, experts told OSV News.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Volunteers watching over the relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati gently placed items from the faithful on top of his casket to make a third-class relic for the visitors to the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, near Rome’s Pantheon, one afternoon during the Jubilee of Youth.
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