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On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV brought an end to the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate. The meeting of cardinals was not very exciting, which @CharlesinRome says might have been the point.
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On Saturday, @Pontifex Leo XIV closed a two-day consistory, the second such gathering of cardinals in his not-quite-fourteen-month pontificate. The meeting was not very exciting, which @Crux's ed.-in-chief @CharlesinRome says was the point.
https://t.co/CXzYIAWhaC

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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday offered prayers for victims of deadly earthquakes in Venezuela – the second appeal in as many days – hours after a significant aftershock struck off the coast of Venezuela.
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On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV brought an end to the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate. The meeting of cardinals was not very exciting, which @CharlesinRome says might have been the point.
https://t.co/1FkMdygL3F

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Catholic Relief Services (@CatholicRelief) and Caritas Venezuela (@caritasdevzla) are among the Church agencies already responding on the ground and working to assess both immediate and ongoing needs.
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Attorneys and rights advocates say Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are still being abused to harass and threaten the innocent, especially Christians.
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Kidnappers forced their victims to record a video message saying Cameroonian authorities have not heeded the words of peace and reconciliation the pontiff recently carried to the country.
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JD Vance wants the U.S. & the Holy See to have better relations, like those they enjoyed during the Reagan era. @craltieri looks at what could make such a relationship possible in the mid-21st century, & asks whether Vance is the one to foster it.
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[Chris Altieri @craltieri]

The world in the middle of the twenty-first century is volatile and polarized, but so was the world in the days of the Cold War. One major difference: State actors then had healthier institutions.
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The interim report of an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against a prominent post-war German cardinal is set to be published on Thursday.

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The Vatican has rejected a German bishop’s request for permission to allow lay persons to deliver the homily in “exceptional circumstances” instead of a cleric.

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The killing of a prominent Sudanese priest highlights the “moral failure” that now characterizes the northeast African nation.

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The World Cup has been drawing all the attention in Argentina and Brazil, both South American countries where soccer is a central part of national identity. But the Church is concerned about a collateral phenomenon: Online betting.

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On Monday, the French National Assembly – the country’s lower house – began a third reading of a bill on assisted suicide after it was previously rejected twice by the French Senate.

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Pope Leo XIV has lent his support to the Yanomani people as they work with partners to recover from humanitarian crisis and attendant challenges in the Amazon.

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Pope Leo XIV issued a forceful defense of human life and dignity on Monday, calling on Catholics in medicine and related fields of biomedical research to be “committed witnesses in society, dedicated to the constant pursuit of the common good.”

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Pope Leo XIV encouraged Italians on Saturday to rediscover their lagging Catholic faith during a visit to northern Italy where he prayed before the relics of St. Augustine, the intellectual giant of the early Christian church and inspiration of his religious spirituality.

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The head of Latin America’s top development bank made a pitch to Pope Leo XIV this week in the face of the Vatican’s call to divest from the mining industry: That the mistakes of the past can be avoided in extracting rare earth minerals to supply a global tech boom.

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