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Pope warns against undermining human 'dignity' in AI, social media era
The Peninsula
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July 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV salutes faithful during the mass for the Jubilee of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers celebrated by Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle at St. Peters’ Basilica at the Vatican on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI /...
Cardinal Tagle leads Vatican's first Jubilee Mass for Catholic influencers
Philippine STAR
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July 29, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has urged Catholic influencers to be discerning about the power they wield online and to let Jesus' love become their "true fluid of influence," as he led the Mass that celebrates the Catholic...
How Pope Leo XIV can influence the Catholic Church’s new social media missionaries
Catholic News Agency
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July 28, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 13:09 pm The Vatican welcomes more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new generation of Catholic missionaries — those sharing Christ on the internet. An active...
The Vatican embraces Catholic influencers: ‘We are the gateway to the faith’
El País
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July 29, 2025
Paula Vega went viral in 2023 when she decided to spend her honeymoon with her husband in Rome to visit Pope Francis. They arrived dressed as bride and groom and carried their marriage certificate. “We wanted his blessing. I told him I was a...
TV’s best (and worst) historical epics: from Wolf Hall to I, Claudius
The Guardian
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July 29, 2025
Inflate thy balloons and unsheathe thy Party Rings, for here is Chief of War (Apple TV+) to remind us of the joy of the scowling historical epic. Here too, almost, is Battle of Hastings belter King & Conqueror (BBC, August). And Spartacus: House...
Historic town pub owners 'humbled' to reach 'Best Pub 2025' final
News & Star
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Captain Nelson Tavern has been nominated by News & Star readers as one of the ten finalists in its 'Best Pub 2025' award. The pub, which is in Maryport, is owned by Philip and Avril Routledge, who took over the Tavern in November 2024 after it had...
Vatican Envoy Visits Persecuted Christians in Modi’s India
Patheos
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July 25, 2025
Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons. Image Courtesy Neandra Modi....
How Pope Leo XIV Can Influence Catholic Church’s New Social Media Missionaries
ACI Africa
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July 28, 2025
“Evangelization in the modern world,” he concluded, “must find the appropriate means for redirecting public attention away from spectacle and into mystery.” ‘Digital missionaries’ Almost 13 years later, the popularity of social media has...
2024 profits from Vatican investments, properties answer some of new pope’s prayers
Penn Live - Pennsylvania
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July 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is starting his pontificate with a complicated arithmetic problem. The Vatican has been running a 50 million to 60 million euro structural deficit for years and is facing a 1 billion euro pension fund shortfall, according to The...
The current relations between the Vatican and the Russian Church
Rome Reports
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July 28, 2025
The man you see here is Metropolitan Antonij, head of External Relations for the Russian Orthodox Church and envoy of Patriarch Kirill to the Vatican. This was his first official meeting with Pope Leo XIV. Among the topics of discussion were...
Pope Leo XIV Working on His First Encyclical
FSSPX.NEWS
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Peace? Social doctrine? Unity? In an Italian peninsula stunned by the intense summer heat, Vaticanists are almost the only ones taking bets, especially since the press revealed that Pope Leo XIV was taking advantage of his stay at Castel...
"Dangerous sign": Vatican Secretary of State on Deadly Attack on Church in Democratic Republic of Congo
ACI Africa
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July 28, 2025
According to the BBC, members of the ADF stormed a church in the town of Komanda, where they shot dead Catholic worshippers and then looted and burned nearby businesses. Komanda is in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a...
Pope Leo XIV Appeals to Leaders to End Wars, Start Peace Talks
The Tablet - New York
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July 28, 2025
by Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The time for negotiations to start is now, and anything jeopardizing peace must be rejected, Pope Leo XIV said. “Every human person possesses an inherent dignity, bestowed by God himself,” he said after reciting...
Michael Knowles Reveals The Truth About The Vatican And The Nazis
Daily Wire
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July 28, 2025
Could the Catholic Church have done more to fight the Nazis? Conventional wisdom says yes, but newly-released information from the Vatican suggests otherwise. Beginning August 13, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles will correct the historical record...
Polish priest accused of murder, Vatican asked to defrock him
Premier Christianity News
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The Archbishop of Warsaw has asked the Vatican to defrock a Polish priest accused of murdering a homeless man with extreme cruelty. Prosecutors say the cleric, named only as Mirosław M., allegedly struck 68-year-old Anatol Cz. with an axe, set him...
Christianity is sexy now! How 'hot priest' influencers are drawing young people to the church in their droves
Daily Mail
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July 28, 2025
The face of Christianity is changing as a slew of handsome, fit priests are drawing new fans - and believers - over social media. Men of the cloth usually have a reputation for being serious and severe, with looks being the very last thing they...
Thai, Cambodian leaders to meet in Malaysia for talks to end border dispute
News Tribune - Missouri
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July 28, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) -- Thai and Cambodian leaders will meet in Malaysia for talks to end hostilities, a spokesperson for the Thai prime minister's office said Sunday. This comes following pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to end a deadly border...
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How to spread faith? The Vatican is calling on ‘hot priests’
Firstpost
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July 28, 2025
What if the path back to faith runs through Instagram, and a really good-looking priest? The Vatican seems to think so. At a time when church pews are thinning out and TikTok influencers hold more sway, the Catholic Church is turning to an...
Azerbaijan, Vatican Strengthen Global Interfaith Ties With New Agreement (PHOTO)
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28. The "Memorandum of Understanding in the Field of Interreligious Dialogue between the State Committee on Work with Religious Institutions of Azerbaijan and the Dicastery of the Holy See for...
Azerbaijan, Vatican discuss religious cooperation
News.Az
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On July 28, an Azerbaijani delegation led by Ramin Mammadov, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with Religious Institutions, met with Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Substitute for the Secretary of State of the Holy See. During the meeting, the...