Catholics should “take a moment to reflect on the title 'Sacred Heart of Jesus'” and what the “special title” truly means, Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, said.

The Holy Father highlighted the principles guiding Catholic student associations in Germany — of which Pope Benedict XVI was also a member — religion, scholarship, friendship, and homeland.

The Globe and Mail said the "starting point for the media” in 2021 should have been searching for evidence and admitted to a “failure of journalism.”

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David is advising a new civilian-led body seeking to document the thousands killed during Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug campaign.

The bishops of Myanmar are in Rome for their ad limina visits. Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar, speaks to Vatican News about their meeting with Pope Leo XIV and the situation in the country.

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The bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat near Barcelona said the pope's visit to a prison in his diocese will send a powerful message that the Church's path is one of mercy.

Fifteen years after Pope Benedict XVI’s World Youth Day in Madrid, Pope Leo XIV travels to the same city, where people hope for encouragement and a revitalization of the country's faith.

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In this week’s news from the Eastern Churches, produced in collaboration with L’Œuvre d’Orient, we look at the role of Lebanon's Beaufort Castle over the centuries.

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Humanitarian development aid expert and diplomat, Dr. Daniel Solymári, reflects on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica humanitas as a powerful social and synodal appeal to see the world from the perspective of the poor, refugees, war victims. He also highlights how the text calls to place justice, fraternity, and peace at the heart of public life.

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On the occasion of the Eid al-Adha celebration, observed this week, by the Muslim community, Cardinal Ignace Dogbo Bessi, Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan and President of the Episcopal Commission for Ecumenism, Biblical Apostolate, and Interreligious Dialogue, sent a message of fraternity to the Ivorian Muslim community. In his address, the prelate emphasized that religions should remain forces of peace, reconciliation, and social cohesion.

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