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El Papa pide a los católicos apoyar las misiones con oración y donaciones
Por Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — En varios videos, grabados en inglés, español e italiano, el Papa León XIV instó a todas las parroquias católicas del mundo a celebrar el Domingo Mundial de las Misiones el 19 de...
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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News after Paramount buys her website NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The...

Vatican warns of AI risks, urges humans to stay in control
Homepage > News > Business > Vatican warns of AI risks, urges humans to stay in control The Vatican has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) can generate misleading, manipulative, and harmful information while urging that humans remain in the...

‘Dilexi te’: the pope’s passionate plea for the poor
Copies of the Italian translation of “Dilexi Te” (“I Have Loved You”), Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation, are seen in front of Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, at a Vatican news conference Oct. 9,...

Pope Leo rips up Vatican laws as he unpicks Francis's troubled financial legacy
13:55 ET, 06 Oct 2025 Francis' policies were controversial(Image: Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) Pope Leo XIV has begun to roll back some of Pope Francis' more contentious financial reforms and decisions, notably...

Peruvian Bishop Resigns After Scandal Over 17 Mistresses and Vatican Probe
A shocking sex and corruption scandal has rocked the Peruvian Catholic Church after The Times UK revealed that Bishop Ciro Quispe López, 51, of Juli, Peru, has resigned following allegations that he maintained relationships with as many as 17...

Pope allows banks outside Vatican to manage Holy See investments
The tower of the Institute for Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank (CNS/Paul Haring) Pope Leo XIV has permitted the Holy See’s main financial body to use financial institutions outside the Vatican for its investment...
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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News after Paramount buys her website NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The...

Top Vatican official sees 'perverse spiral of hatred' in Israel-Gaza war
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago "was inhuman and indefensible," the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel's two-year-long war on Gaza has had "disastrous and inhuman consequences." "It is unacceptable and...

Release of Leo’s first ‘Motu Proprio’ changes tack on Francis’s reforms for Vatican finances
Pope Leo XIV has issued a motu proprio entitled Coniuncta Cura, which introduces new regulations governing the financial investment activities of the Holy See. Signed on 29 September, the Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, it is...

Fertility Services Market To Reach US$ 80.1 Billion By 2033 Astute Analytica
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Technological advancements and expanding insurance coverage are fueling significant growth. The fertility services market is increasingly focused on personalized medicine and AI-driven diagnostics, while clinics...

Leo XIV overturns Pope Francis’ decision and restructures Vatican finances under one principle: shared responsibility
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 10.06.2025).- In a decisive move signaling both continuity and correction, Pope Leo XIV has issued his first Apostolic Letter in the form of a «Motu Proprio», titled «Coniuncta cura»—a document that reshapes the Holy...
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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News after Paramount buys her website NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The...

Pope Leo XIV is starting to correct some of Francis' more problematic financial decisions
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo completely abrogated the 2022 law that...

Pope Leo XIV Removes the Vatican Bank's Exclusivity Over Vatican Investments
The scandal of the London property, which caused millions in losses for the Holy See, led the Vatican completely redefining its investment policy. After the case broke out, Pope Francis sought to reduce the power of the Secretariat of State—the...

Two years after October 7: interview with the Vatican Secretary of State on Hamas terrorism and the massacre in Gaza
(ZENIT News – L´Osservatore Romano / Vatican City, 10.06.2025).- Two years have passed since Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel and the beginning of what has become a full-blown war that has razed the Gaza Strip to the ground. We look back at...

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Bari Weiss is the new editor-in-chief of CBS News after Paramount buys her website NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The...

Top Vatican diplomat calls October 7 Hamas attack ‘inhuman and indefensible’, says ‘Israel committing massacre in Gaza’
Ahead of the second anniversary of the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,195 people, mostly civilians, the Vatican’s top diplomat called it “inhuman and indefensible” and urged the militants to free remaining...

Vatican's Swiss Guards have a new uniform — but don't worry, the iconic one remains
VATICAN CITY -- The world’s oldest army has new uniforms. But don’t worry: The Swiss Guards’ famed blue, yellow and red Renaissance-style billowy garb isn’t going anywhere. Rather, the pope’s army on Tuesday unveiled an additional uniform for...

Pope Leo XIV starts to correct some of Francis' more problematic financial decisions
Nation & World News Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile at the end of a Mass for the Jubilee of Migrants and Missionaries in St. Peter's...