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Vatican-China Agreement Enters New Phase With Pope Leo XIV at the Helm
National Catholic Register
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Rumor has it that a delegation from China is expected to visit the Vatican at the end of June for the regular bilateral meeting to discuss Sino-Vatican relations and the progress of the agreement on the appointment of bishops. The news is not...
Vatican report urges overhaul of Africa's debt architecture
African Business
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June 23, 2025
A new Vatican-backed report, unveiled in Rome, calls to overhaul the global financial architecture and fix a debt system that it says is punishing Africa and other developing regions. The Jubilee Report challenges the logic of inequity, arguing...
Teaching Teens Real Virtue with Dietrich Von Hildebrand
National Catholic Register
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June 26, 2025
A Catholic teacher’s guide to deeper conversations about truth and freedom As a secondary school theology teacher, I rarely find a work in moral theology that balances academic rigor with the pastoral and pedagogical needs of high school students....
Vatican Backs Upcoming International Symposium in South Africa, Urges Delegates to Advance Gospel Witnessing
ACI Africa
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June 20, 2025
The event also seeks to create “a just and accountable global debt architecture rooted in equity and the public good; and the development of a Universal School Meals Program as a global commitment to child nutrition and education.” The outcomes of...
A new Catholic Mass prays the world halts climate change
West Central Tribune - Minnesota
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July 3, 2025
VATICAN CITY — A new rite published Thursday by the Vatican will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care for the Earth, in the latest push by the 1.4-billion-member global Church to address global climate change. For...
Vatican-backed report wants debt relief for developing countries
Christian Today
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June 21, 2025
(Photo: Getty/iStock) A report initiated by the late Pope Francis has called for changes to the global financial and debt system in what is the Catholic Church's “Jubilee Year”. The Jubilee Year is a year in which the Catholic Church commits...
MAiD unit, forced onto campus of Catholic-run hospital in Canada, now operational
The Central Minnesota Catholic
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June 24, 2025
Terry O’Neill | Canadian Catholic News, OSV News A government-ordered euthanasia facility, operated by the British Columbia government’s Vancouver Coastal Health Authority on the downtown campus of the Catholic-run St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver...
What Is the Difference Between the Holy See, Vatican City, and the Roman Curia? Cardinal Ghirlanda Explains
Zenit
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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...
The future of global health, without the United States
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Towards the end of his first presidency, Donald Trump ordered a US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in a spat over its refusal to say that the COVID-19 virus was a Chinese laboratory leak. When the Biden administration came to...
Vatican sets up global commission to tackle sovereign debt crisis
Business and Financial Times
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June 20, 2025
…Ghana, others in the Global South to benefit By Kizito CUDJOE The Vatican has announced the launch of a high-level Commission of Experts to address the mounting sovereign debt crisis affecting Ghana and numerous other countries across the...
Glastonbury sparks 'super-spreader event' fears over potentially fatal disease
SomersetLive
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June 24, 2025
Some 200,000 people are expected to descend on Glastonbury this weekend, to share in the enjoyment of one of the world's most famous music festivals. But, according to one expert, an unlucky few festival goers will be returning home with an...
Vatican-backed report urges root and branch reform to tackle escalating debt crisis
New African Magazine
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June 20, 2025
A ground-breaking new report, authored by the Pope Francis’ Jubilee Commission calls for urgent action and systemic reforms to tackle the escalating debt and development crises affecting billions, including African in particular, worldwide. The...
Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis
Mongabay
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June 20, 2025
A commission appointed by the late Pope Francis has released a new report highlighting the urgent need to address global debt, which has hindered sustainable development and climate action. The report was authored by the Jubilee Commission, which...
Vatican-backed report seeks financial reform to avert decades of lost development
WKZO - Michigan
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June 20, 2025
By Libby George LONDON(Reuters) -A commission launched by the late Pope Francis has outlined financial reforms it says could help to avert decades of lost development in poor countries that face onerous repayments as global public debts reach...
Pope Leo and Libero Milone: Will anything change in the ‘other’ Vatican financial trial?
The Pillar
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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...
Angelina Jolie $120 Million Net Worth: A Force in Hollywood and Humanitarianism
Finance Monthly
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July 3, 2025
Angelina Jolie $120 Million Net Worth: A Force in Hollywood and Humanitarianism. What is Angelina Jolie's Net Worth? Beyond the silver screen, Angelina Jolie is a formidable presence as a filmmaker, businesswoman, and dedicated humanitarian. This...
Flushing man presents symbolic pennant to Pope Leo XIV during Vatican Jubilee
QNS - New York
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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...
Religion news 4 July 2025
Religion Media Centre
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July 4, 2025
BBC Director General apologises to Jewish staff over Glastonbury The BBC says it will no longer broadcast high risk performances live, after the controversy over the live streaming of Bob Vylan’s performance at Glastonbury where he encouraged the...
Pope Leo XIV's message to the politicians gathered at the Vatican for the Jubilee
Rome Reports
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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
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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...