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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican
I’ve also had an absolute conviction, from the moment that his papal name was announced, that this pontificate will have an historical significance to rival that of John Paul II’s, Leo XIII’s, and Pius IX’s.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News
As the Sisters of Christian Charity watched the white smoke rise from the Sistine Chapel in Rome May 8 and awaited the appearance of the new pope on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, they had no idea they had played a vital role in his early formation.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hopes to deliver a “Universal Guidelines Framework for Safeguarding” to Pope Leo XIV later this year, the commission said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News
The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based on a common faith and should be demonstrated by a common celebration of Easter, the most sacred feast of the Christian year, said speakers at a Rome conference.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Because of its universal character and outlook, the Catholic Church can be a driving force for building communion between the church of Rome and the local churches as well as fostering friendly relationships in the world community, Pope Leo XIV told members of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn’t seem like a pontiff to say, “I told you so.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting with cardinals to approve his canonization and that of seven other people.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
God loves every person and wants to help everyone discover their inherent value and dignity, especially those who feel unworthy or unappreciated, Pope Leo XIV said.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, Vatican
An interest in life at the Church’s administrative center is fine; an obsession with it, fueled by ill-informed blogs and social media, is not.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for June, a month devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is “that the world might grow in compassion.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News
In a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the canonization of three French saints — John Eudes, John Vianney and Thérèse of Lisieux — Pope Leo prayed that the anniversary celebrations “will not merely evoke nostalgia for a past that might seem bygone, but that they will awaken hope and give rise to a new missionary impetus.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News
Blessed Iuliu Hossu, the Romanian Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla, was named a cardinal “in pectore” — secretly — by St. Paul VI in 1969.
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