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Vatican turns to ‘hot priests’ to rescue faith
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) In an effort to reconnect with younger generations and counter declining church attendance, the Vatican is hosting a digital evangelism summit featuring several clergy members who have gained popularity online — and have been dubbed “hot...
Vatican turns to 'hot' Instagram priests to recruit new followers
IOL
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The Vatican is convening over 1,000 priests, friars, and lay digital communicators in Rome this week, aiming to explore how social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, blogs and apps can bolster outreach and help reconnect with a younger...
Evangelizing on Social Media More Than Just Gaining Followers: Pope Leo XIV to Catholic Digital Influencers
ACI Africa
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July 29, 2025
For Pope Leo, peace “needs to be sought, proclaimed, and shared everywhere; both in places where we see the tragedy of war and in the empty hearts of those who have lost any meaning of life and the desire for introspection and the spiritual life.”...
Evangelizing on social media more than just gaining followers, Leo XIV reminds influencers
Catholic News Agency
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July 29, 2025
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 29, 2025 / 16:29 pm Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday participated in the Mass celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on the occasion of the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers, encouraging them to create encounters...
New secular study finds Vatican II triggered a decline in Catholic Mass attendance worldwide
LifeSite
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July 29, 2025
News Economic research found that religious service attendance in Catholic nations significantly decreased compared with all other countries beginning in 1965, the final year of Vatican II. (LifeSiteNews) — A newly published secular study found...
New Vatican Media hub opens under St Peter’s Colonnade
Vatican News
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July 25, 2025
By Daniele Piccini As preparations for the Jubilee Year continue, the Vatican’s communications network has opened a new space in St Peter’s Square dedicated to encounter, dialogue, and hope. Located beneath the Braccio di Carlo Magno, the new...
Winning Isn’t Everything: A Catholic View of Sports
National Catholic Register
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Scottie Scheffler has his priorities straight. The world’s top-ranked golfer reinforced this point after winning his second major championship of the year, the British Open. In the press conference after his dominant victory, Scheffler stated, “I...
Tens of thousands of Catholics head to Vatican's Jubilee of Youth
The Messenger - Kentucky
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Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered on Tuesday in Rome for the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth -- an event that takes place every 25 years. The week-long event is taking place just over two months...
Vatican asked to defrock Polish priest charged with killing homeless man
1News
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The archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, has asked the Vatican to defrock a priest charged with the killing of a 68-year-old homeless man who was beaten with an axe and set on fire. Prosecutors charged the priest, only identified as Mirosław M in line...
‘Nurture a Culture of Christian Humanism,’ Leo XIV Reminds Digital Influencers
National Catholic Register
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‘It is not simply a matter of generating content but of creating an encounter of hearts,’ the Pope said while sharing three missions or challenges when it comes to evangelizing online. Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday participated in the Mass celebrated in...
Games Where You Can Visit Real World Cities
TheGamer
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August 2, 2025
Video games like Grand Theft Auto, Mafia, Just Cause, and Red Dead Redemption prefer to use fake cities inspired by real-world locations, even though their influences can still clearly be felt. Certain locations and landmarks will be exactly like...
Tom Lehrer Gave Us One of the Best Jewish Holiday Songs, ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica’
Kveller
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July 29, 2025
Music May the funny, brilliant, subversive gifts he gave the world live on forever. And may his memory be for a blessing. Via Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The famously private Tom Lehrer, who passed away on Sunday, July 27 at age...
Does Tatler’s Editor Richard Dennen Have the Hottest Job at Condé Nast?
WWD - New York
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July 29, 2025
LONDON — Does Tatler’s Richard Dennen have the best edit job at Condé Nast? He’s in a rare position at the publisher’s U.K. offices as he’s still an editor, rather than a “head of editorial content,” while Tatler remains a stand-alone magazine...
The First Mass for Digital Missionaires and Influencers
Rome Reports
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July 29, 2025
On the second day of the Youth Jubilee, the Vatican held a mass dedicated to digital missionaries and Catholic influencers for the first time. Cardinal Tagle delivered the homily message to the crowd of young influencers, defining what influencing...
Pope Leo XIV mobbed by Catholic influencers at Vatican festival
The Independent
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July 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Pope thrills hundreds of thousands of young Catholics at Holy Year youth festival
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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For the past week, these bands of young Catholics from around the world have poured into Rome for their special Jubilee celebration, in a Holy Year in which 32 million people are expected to descend on the Vatican to participate in a centuries-old...
Tens Of Thousands In Rome For Vatican's Jubilee Of Youth
International Business Times
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July 29, 2025
Tens of thousands of young Catholics from all over the world gathered on Tuesday in Rome for a week of pilgrimage during the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth -- an event that takes place every 25 years. The mass gathering is taking place just over two...
Rock star welcome for Pope Leo as he arrives by helicopter to open-air youth vigil
The Journal
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August 2, 2025
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of young faithful cheered Pope Leo XIV today as he arrived by helicopter for an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, in a rock star welcome for the new head of the Catholic Church. Pilgrims began crying and cheering when the...
Pope Leo XIV gets rock star welcome from young Catholics at huge vigil
The Guardian
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August 2, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of young faithful feted Pope Leo XIV like a rock star on Saturday at an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, after the head of the Catholic church made a dramatic entrance by helicopter. Pilgrims began crying and cheering when...
Holy Likes and Heavenly Looks: How 'Hot Priests' Are Preaching to the Social Media Generation
Times Now
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July 29, 2025
(L-R) Father Don Ambrogio Mazzai (Photo: Instagram/amb.mzz9), Father Giuseppe Fusari (Instagram/art.priest2023) and Father Don Cosimo Schena (Photo: Instagram/doncosimoschena) The Lord tests you, and occasionally in thirst-trapping ways. The...