Being sleep deprived due to the World Cup is normal but which nation's fans have their sleep disrupted the most? Spare a thought for the Algerian football fans! Group-stage kick off times converted to each team’s local time and how much sleep might be lost. Source: https://t.co/bDtkXtej23
POPE LEO XIV receives IRAN’S ONLY CARDINAL 🇮🇷
Pope Leo met today at the Vatican with Iran’s leading Catholic figure, Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, originally from Belgium but serving in Iran since 2021, who has been evacuated from Tehran amid the ongoing conflict.
There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo XIV:
“War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.
“Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself, or in the pursuit of the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men and women.”
“Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion.
“This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.”
As tradition during the Sede Vacante, the Ring of the Fisherman and the lead seal of Pope Francis were officially destroyed this morning in the Synod Hall, in the presence of the Camerlengo and the College of Cardinals. A rite marking the end of one pontificate and the wait for the next.