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The Pope with Pulitzer Prize Winners: Writing Is “An Act of Humanity”

Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, a Nobel Prize laureate, novelists, and authors from various countries have gathered at the Vatican with Leo XIV. Writing is “an act of humanity,” said the Pope, who urged people to read books as an antidote to “closed-mindedness” and as protection against fundamentalism and “ideological shortcuts.”.

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León XIV Opens the Extraordinary Consistory with a Call for Synodality, Peace, and Mission

Leo XIV has welcomed cardinals from around the world to the Vatican, where they will hold an Extraordinary Consistory on June 26 and 27.

Paloma López Campos

The Liturgy of the Word and the Eucharist are a single act of worship, the Pope emphasizes

León XIV stated today that the Liturgy of the Word and the Eucharistic Liturgy “are so closely united that they constitute a single act of worship.” He encouraged greater participation in Mass during the holidays and said that visiting the tombs of the Apostles should strengthen fraternal communion and the Church’s evangelizing mission.

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The Vatican denies the Church in Germany permission for laypeople to preach during the Eucharistic homily

The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has rejected the request from the German Bishops’ Conference, arguing that reserving the homily for ordained ministers is not merely a disciplinary rule, but rather derives from the very nature of the liturgy

Javier García Herrería

León XIV Offers the Key to Evangelization: an “Intimate Relationship” with Jesus

The strength to never give up and to continue spreading the message of hope, love, and peace comes from “a deep relationship” with Jesus, the Pope said during this Sunday’s Angelus. This also enables us to face hostility and persecution, just as the early Christians did.

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Pope Leo and the Digital Missionaries

En su encíclica «Magnifica Humanitas», León XIV prefiere subrayar criterios antes que soluciones particulares, también en lo que respecta al uso doméstico o personal de las tecnologías.

Juan Ignacio Izquierdo Hübner

The day I was a Swiss Guard

Saint John of Kety, professor at the University of Krakow and parish priest

Papua New Guinea, second stop on Pope Francis' trip

“You don’t need to be rich or powerful, just have love,” says the Pope in Mongolia

Pope Francis in Marseille, plurality as a resource

Hungary: Pope Francis' next destination

Poverty, tensions and women: challenges ahead of the Pope's visit to Africa

The Catholic Church in Congo and South Sudan

The Pope travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. “Mbote François”, Okay, now, welcome!

Pope Francis and initiatives for dialogue with Islam

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

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Saints of Auschwitz: Kolbe, Stein, Salesians… The goal: education

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Diane Foley: "I could not have endured the murder of our son without my faith in God"«

Teresa Aguado Peña

The Tears of Saint Lawrence: When the Stars Remember a Martyr

Teresa Aguado Peña

Acutis AI: This Is How Leo XIV Wants Us to Experience the AI Revolution

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