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09/24/2025

A growing number of Catholic priests and bishops, most of them in Italy, have signed a petition denouncing what they describe as Israel’s ongoing “genocide” in Gaza, charging the government with war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

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Catholic Clergy Launch Global Petition Condemning ‘Genocide’ in Gaza

09/24/2025

For the first time in modern history, the pipes of a medieval organ have made their authentic voice resound, after nearly eight hundred years of silence. It happened in Jerusalem, where Spanish musicologist David Catalunya, from the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences (ICCMU), performed the 11th-century liturgical chant «Benedicamus Domino Flos filius» using the original pipes of the Bethlehem Organ.

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09/23/2025

Leone XIV’s interview with American journalist Elise Allen – contained in the book ‘Leone XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century’ and released on 18 September – is important because it allows us to delve into the thoughts and programme of a pope who is still little known.

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AsiaNews editorial director Fr. Gianni Criveller comments on the Pope's words on China in an interview released in recent days: "He guarantees the continuity of previous choices, aware that there is time between now and the new expiry of the Agreement in 2028. But he also says he is listening to the...

09/23/2025

On Friday morning, September 19, in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV received in audience the participants in a meeting sponsored by the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), the Pontifical Academy for Life, and the John Paul II Institute (September 19, 2025). The meeting focused on “Hopeful Discernment on the Future of Life and the Family.”

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09/23/2025

Italy is moving closer to reinstating October 4 as a national holiday in honor of St. Francis of Assisi—and, symbolically, of the late Pope Francis who bore his name. The proposal, now scheduled for debate in the final week of September, has drawn cross-party support from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition.

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If approved, the holiday would return nearly half a century after its removal in 1977, when austerity measures swept away several feast days

09/23/2025

On the morning of Saturday, September 20, Pope Leo XIV granted a special audience in St. Peter’s Square to participants in the Jubilee of Workers for Justice (all those involved in the world of secular, canonical, and ecclesiastical justice, such as judges, prosecutors, magistrates, lawyers, and legal professionals, etc.).

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09/23/2025

At noon on Sunday, September 21, Pope Leo XIV appeared at the window of the papal apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square to recite the Angelus prayer with thousands of people gathered there. As usual, before the prayer, the Pope delivered his Sunday address on the Gospel reading proposed by the liturgy for that same Sunday.

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09/22/2025

The new book-interview about Leo XIV not only offers an intimate look at his life, but also becomes a kind of pastoral manifesto of the first steps of his pontificate. In it, the Pope bluntly addresses some of the most divisive issues within and outside the Church: the place of women, the acceptance of LGBTQ Catholics, and the wound of sexual abuse.

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09/22/2025

The name of Pedro Arrupe, the charismatic Jesuit superior general who guided his order through the turbulent decades after the Second Vatican Council, has long inspired devotion. From his work among the survivors of Hiroshima to his vision of a missionary Church that serves the marginalized, Arrupe’s story has been invoked as a model of holiness since his death in 1991. His cause for canonization, opened in 2019, continues to advance in Rome.

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09/22/2025

The Cathedral of Córdoba, one of Spain’s most iconic religious monuments, faced an unsettling episode last month when repeated bomb threats forced police to sweep the site and activate emergency protocols. Authorities later arrested a man in Palencia, hundreds of kilometers away, accusing him of public disorder and hate crimes linked to the incident.

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The scare came only days after a small fire in the cathedral, reportedly caused by the overheating of a cleaning machine’s battery, had already raised questions about preparedness in safeguarding the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

09/21/2025

A parish priest in Nigeria’s central Kogi State has been kidnapped along with several fellow travelers, underscoring once again how targeted violence against clergy and ordinary citizens has become a grim feature of daily life in Africa’s most populous nation.

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The abduction adds to a disturbing pattern that has placed religious leaders on the front lines of Nigeria’s worsening security crisis

09/21/2025

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, told U.S. senators that dismissals and resignations have followed the controversial “Richmond memo” of 2023, a document that sparked outrage for targeting traditionalist Catholics as potential extremist threats.

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Appearing before the Senate on September 16, Patel faced pointed questions from Missouri Senator Josh Hawley about how the bureau has handled the scandal and what it is doing to address the growing number of attacks on Catholic and Christian communities nationwide.