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At the Vatican, experts challenge the rules of global debt and finance
Religion News Service
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July 2, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Some of the most provocative recent proposals challenging global inequality and international debt are not the work of Ivy League economics departments or Silicon Valley think tanks. They’re coming from inside the Vatican. “I...
First lady Emine Erdoğan pushes for global justice in Vatican visit
Sabah
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July 3, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan delivered a passionate plea for global justice and solidarity during her keynote speech at the “Brotherhood-Based Economy: Ethical Multilateralism” conference at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences....
Pope tells digital missionaries to help foster peace in the world
Catholic News
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July 29, 2025
Digital missionaries and Catholic influencers film Pope Leo’s speech at the Vatican yesterday (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Pope Leo XIV admitted science and technology are influencing “the way we live in the world” in a speech yesterday to influencers...
Commentary: Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document defending the freedom of science. “These developments...
“Reflect on the authenticity of your witness”: Pope Leo XIV to digital missionaries
Zenit
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July 30, 2025
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 07.29.2025).- On the morning of Tuesday, July 29, Pope Leo appeared before a large gathering of “digital missionaries,” most of them young people, at the conclusion of Mass presided over by Cardinal Tagle at the altar...
Catholic Bishops Urge Government Support After Bangladesh Plane Crash
National Catholic Register
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As parents grieve the loss of their children, the Catholic bishops of Bangladesh have urged the government to fully support victims and families following the July 21 crash of an air force training jet into a local school that killed at least 35...
Cardinals from Global South deliver urgent climate appeal at Vatican
Religion News Service
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July 1, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Warning of “irreversible impacts” if the world stays on its current course, three influential cardinals from the Global South presented a document at the Vatican on Tuesday (July 1) calling for bold international action on...
Emine Erdoğan meets Pope Leo XIV on Gaza, climate, family in Vatican
Sabah
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July 2, 2025
First lady Emine Erdoğan met with Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Wednesday, July 2, where the two leaders held a wide-ranging discussion on global humanitarian concerns, interfaith cooperation and the importance of...
Raphael’s experiments with innovative painting technique revealed by Vatican Museums restoration
The Art Newspaper
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July 1, 2025
Restoration work on the Hall of Constantine at the Vatican has revealed an innovative mural painting technique that the Renaissance artist Raphael experimented with. The hall, part of the Raphael Rooms at the Apostolic Palace, was reopened last...
Mad About Science: Medieval helmets
Sandpoint Reader - Idaho
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June 30, 2025
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Hear ye, hear ye! It’s my favorite time of year: Renaissance Faire season! The Sandpoint Ren Faire will be spreading merriment on Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 at the Bonner County Fairgrounds, so I...
The Osbournes ‘changed TV forever’ and no reality show will ever compete
Metro
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July 30, 2025
In a nutshell? The Osbournes walked so The Kardashians could run (Picture: MTV/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock) Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness, the father of heavy metal music and… reality TV trailblazer? The Black Sabbath music legend died on July 22,...
Human dignity must be protected from rise of AI, Pope says
BBC
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ShareSave Pope Leo XIV has told the Vatican's first Mass for Catholic social media influencers that human dignity needs to be protected online as the world faces the "challenge" of artificial intelligence (AI). "Nothing that comes from man and his...
Voices: Why has it been so difficult for Britain to recognise the state of Palestine?
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...
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 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...
Leo XIV tells digital missionaries to 'go and mend the net'
Asia News
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July 29, 2025
The pontiff met with Catholic influencers taking part in the Jubilee in St Peter's Basilica. He invited them to "proclaim peace to the world" by embracing the Church's mission. He appealed for the "new culture" of technology and artificial...
More churches are suing ICE over arrests in places of worship: ‘Congregations have gone underground’
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 Leo calls on ‘Digital Missionaries’ to have real friendships, and not focus on ‘followers’
Crux Now
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July 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV admitted science and technology are influencing “the way we live in the world” in a speech on Tuesday to “Influencers and Digital Missionaries” in Rome for a special 2025 Jubilee event specially organized for them. In the 21st...
OVERTOURISM
Daily Mail
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July 30, 2025
Summertime and the living is anything but easy if you’re planning on going south to certain hotspots this year. Locals in some of the best-loved destinations are venting their fury about overtourism in the height of the season – and beyond. The...
The Jubilee of Youth from St. John Paul II to Leo XIV: The ardent spirit of youth
Catholic News Agency
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July 28, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 08:00 am Twenty-five years have gone by since St. John Paul II transformed the Tor Vergata esplanade in the south of Rome into the beating heart of the young Church for the World Youth Day celebration in 2000. Now,...