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Who’s in and who’s out? Leo’s revamp of Vatican supreme court
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...
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Meet the 21st-century Brazilians on the path to sainthood
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...
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Eddie Cotter: Spiritual maintenance after the 'mountaintop moment'
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...
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Two more Irish dioceses united ‘in persona episcopi’
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...
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Where Leo prayed
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...
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Prayer app leak is latest in series of Vatican website vulnerabilities
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...
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Leo and the patriarchy
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...
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Motor City Blues
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...
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Transalpine Redemptorist founder excommunicated for schism
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...
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‘Lawrence of,’ Sacred Scripture, and the Rupnik end game
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...
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Questions of next Lima bishop cast shadow over pope’s Peruvian trip
Pope Leo XIV is set to visit Peru, the country in which he developed most of his pastoral and episcopal ministry, in November.The trip will likely prove to be a memorable moment in his pontificate. But it will also be tense, due to the seemingly never-ending political crisis in Peru, as well as seve...
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India’s bishops decry ‘brutality’ against ‘Cockroach Party’ supporters
India’s bishops have condemned alleged police brutality during a march in Delhi by supporters of the country’s youth-led Cockroach movement, a satirical political party in the country that has become the center of a now serious political and social conflict.Cockroach Janta Party supporters at Jantar...