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Pope Leo XIV issued a new Fundamental Law of Vatican City State Friday, replacing a previous version adopted in 2023.The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. Credit: Livioandronico2013/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.In a preamble to the new document, which was issued only in Italian July 31, Leo XIV explained that...

From the outside, the Madre di Misericordia clinic may not seem like much. In fact, it’s easy to miss the clinic entirely.Located just steps from the security lines where tourists and pilgrims wait to enter St. Peter’s Basilica, the entrance to the clinic is modest enough that a passerby could easil...

Pope Leo XIV appointed seven new members to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Church’s highest canonical court of appeal, on July 25, including the first three non-bishops ever appointed as members of the tribunal.Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome. Public domain.The appointments b...

Brazil has more Catholics than any other country in the world. So it’s not surprising that it’s producing a striking number of potential 21st-century saints.Padre Léo, pictured in 2006. Screenshot from the @cancaonovaplay YouTube channel.Among the figures whose causes are progressing is Padre Léo, w...

With the school year approaching, a challenge looms for Catholic teenagers across America — the dreaded post-conference spiritual crash.Eddie Cotter speaks with teenagers at a youth group event. Credit: Jack Figge.After experiencing powerful spiritual moments from jampacked summers of Steubenville C...

Pope Leo XIV approved the union of two more Irish dioceses under a single bishop Wednesday.A map highlighting Ireland’s dioceses of Ferns, left, and Ossory. Sheila1988 via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).The Vatican announced July 29 that Bishop Gerard Nash, who has led the Diocese of Ferns since 2021, wou...

Pilgrims arriving at the Shrine of the Most Holy Trinity in Vallepietra approach on foot after hours of walking through the mountains, traveling in groups behind decorated banners. Inside, they touch the rock above them. When they leave, they walk backwards, unwilling to turn their backs on the imag...

A popular prayer app connected to the Vatican, “Click to Pray,” has been leaving user information exposed for months, the most recent in a years-long string of vulnerabilities and hacks for Vatican-related websites.St. Peter’s Basilica. public domain.Subscribe nowThe app, which is available on both...

As the Ukrainian Catholic Church continues to form Catholics more than four years after the country was first invaded by Russia, there are signs that Pope Leo may be considering a long-awaited change of status for the second-largest Eastern Catholic Church in the world.Pope Leo XIV and Major Archbis...

Like many US dioceses, the Archdiocese of Detroit is going through a parish consolidation process.In the preparation, the archdiocese has posted a detailed set of presentations (one for each parish in the archdiocese) providing the data diocesan leaders are assessing as they make these decisions abo...

The head of a traditionalist group who was illicitly ordained a bishop on a remote Scottish island Saturday has been declared excommunicated after a diocesan canonical process found him guilty of schism.The illicit episcopal consecration of Fr. Michael Mary Sim, F.SS.R., on Papa Stronsay, on July 25...

Hey everybody,Today’s the feast of the great Capuchin saint Lawrence of Brindisi, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post.Lawrence of Brindisi. Credit: threecharlie/wikimedia.Subscribe nowLawrence — whose baptismal name was Julius Caesar Russo — was born in 1559, and cared for by Conventual Franc...