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Politics and the Birthday Party
The Catholic Thing
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August 27, 2025
July 2026 marks the 250th birthday of the United States. Alas, the celebration next year will come in the midst of yet another election cycle, and at a time of deep cultural divisions. We need a “common good” politics more than ever. But that’s...
Pope Leo XIV appoints new auxiliary bishop for Diocese of San Jose, California
Catholic News Agency
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August 29, 2025
Vatican City, Aug 29, 2025 / 14:06 pm Pope Leo XIV on Friday appointed Father Andres Ligot as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California. The bishop-elect is currently parish priest of St. Elizabeth of Portugal and vicar general of...
Vatican Announces Publication of Pope Leo XIV’s First Book
Zenit
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August 26, 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 08/26/2025) – Starting Wednesday, August 27, the book «Let There Be Peace! Words to the Church and to the World» by Pope Leo XIV will be available in bookstores (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 160 pages, 15 euros), published in...
Vatican Announces Theme for 2026 World Day of Peace
National Catholic Register
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‘Peace Be With You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace’ “Peace Be With You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace” will be the theme for the 2026 World Day of Peace, the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development...
Is Trump Triggering a Banking Crisis?
theTrumpet
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Iranian agents have been caught planning attacks and murders in France. Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has deep ties to Latin America’s drug gangs. Now Australia’s intelligence service has concluded that Iran was directly responsible for attacks down...
Pharrell Williams, Andrea Bocelli Direct Upcoming Concert in Vatican City: ‘A Message of Unity’
Rolling Stone
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August 27, 2025
The event will celebrate the closing of the third World Meeting on Human Fraternity and stream live on Sept. 13 Pharrell Williams and Andrea Bocelli are co-directing a concert set to take place in the heart of Vatican City. The “landmark cultural...
Vatican ‘appalled’ by Israel’s deadly strike on Gaza hospital
Catholic News
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August 25, 2025
A man holds the equipment used by Hussam al-Masri at the site where he was killed along with other journalists and people in Israeli strikes yesterday on Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip (OSV News/Hatem Khaled, Reuters) Vatican Secretary...
Why ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Director Edward Berger Wanted to Create a ‘Pop Opera Full of Humor, Drama and Contradictions’
Variety
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August 29, 2025
Edward Berger has left the secret hallways of the Vatican in “Conclave” for the glitzy world of Macau in his latest film, “Ballad of a Small Player.” In the movie, Colin Farrell‘s character Lord Doyle plays a gambler who can’t quite beat his...
US Rep. Vicente Gonzalez meets with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City
Brownsville Herald - Texas
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August 26, 2025
Only have a minute? Listen instead U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Brownsville, met with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City last Saturday, according to an announcement Tuesday from the congressman’s office. Gonzalez’s audience...
US to bar some Palestinians from UN assembly as allies pledge statehood
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Michelle Nichols and Ali Sawafta UNITED NATIONS/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The U.S. said on Friday it would bar entry to some Palestinian officials seeking to attend next month's U.N. General Assembly in New York, after several U.S. allies...
The Pittsburgh vatican
World - North Carolina
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August 26, 2025
Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, August 26th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your...
Nicaraguan dictatorship banned more than 16,500 religious processions, new report reveals
Catholic News Agency
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August 29, 2025
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 10:24 am The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has banned more than 16,500 religious processions and activities in recent years and has perpetrated...
Dispatch from Syria’s Christian strongholds: A new government, a full political spectrum
Atlantic Council
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August 25, 2025
On the morning of July 6, Christian parishioners in Syria’s small coastal city of Safita awoke to find death threats outside their churches. They were signed “Saraya Ansar Sunnah,” the same terrorist group that just two weeks earlier had claimed...
Citizenship means so much more than just being here
Laurel Leader-Call - Mississippi
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I write about being an American citizen often and how being one is something I believe is a really special thing. I think it’s the best blessing in God’s plan for me, being born in the United States, and think anyone born here’s hit the lottery....
Europe threatens Iran—Iran claps back
theTrumpet
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Is Rheinmetall coming to a city near you? This week, the German arms giant opened Europe’s largest ammunition plant in northern Germany and unveiled its vision for a “pan-European defense ecosystem.” Other reports reveal its plans to take over...
US to bar Palestinians from UN assembly as allies pledge statehood
Cyprus Mail
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August 29, 2025
The US said on Friday it would bar entry to some Palestinian officials seeking to attend next month’s UN General Assembly in New York, after several US allies pledged to recognize Palestine as a state during the summit despite US and Israeli...
Financial tool tells Catholics if they are investing in abortion, LGBTQ+ causes and porn
Religion News Service
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August 21, 2025
(RNS) — Chris McMahon found success with his Pittsburgh investment firm, MFA Wealth. But he said he regrets not being upfront about his Catholic faith earlier in his career, and is trying to make amends the best way he knows: by helping Catholics...
Business News | Ayodhya, Varanasi & Prayagraj Drive Record Religious Tourism, Boosting UP As India's Top Destination
Latestly
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August 22, 2025
PNN New Delhi [India], August 22: Uttar Pradesh, the spiritual heartland of India, is witnessing a tourism boom unlike anything in recent decades. Unprecedented growth in religious tourism in Uttar Pradesh is driving both cultural revival and...
Vatican-Türkiye diplomacy: Pope Leo’s visit to Iznik
Sabah
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August 21, 2025
In April of this year, the death of Pope Francis cast his followers into profound grief. He had planned a visit to Türkiye to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea (Iznik), which also coincides with the Jubilee Year....
Slovak Church Faces Deepening Divide Over Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans
Axcess News
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August 24, 2025
Slovakia’s Catholic Church faces internal divisions as clergy and believers debate the Vatican’s approval of blessings for same-sex couples and new proposals on gender education. Withdraw Support for Fiducia Supplicans The controversy intensified...