Immaculate Conception Parish

Mass at Pope Leo's baseball team stadium with Pope Leo's first YouTube video for the United States

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Homily of Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of the Jubilee of Sportsmen and Sportswomen on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

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The Jesuits, known for their educational and missionary work across Canada and the Americas, claim the diverted funds were intended for essential pastoral and formation programs—support for elderly and infirm members, training of future Jesuits, spiritual retreats for students, and community outreach efforts. Instead, the money allegedly ended up serving personal benefit.

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Although the Pentecost Room remains open exclusively to Hotel guests until September 1, the general public is eagerly awaited in that grace filled space as part of the complete Notre Dame Experience.

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Is the successful Italian system of financial support for religions really under attack?

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For decades, Opus Dei’s canonical configuration as a personal prelature—granted by St. John Paul II in 1982—has stood as a unique model of clerical and lay collaboration. The current revision aims not to undo that framework, but to refine it under the evolving legal and pastoral priorities of the universal Church.

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Yet this is not a rejection of Pope Francis’s vision. Observers note that Leo XIV’s decision may reflect a nuanced form of continuity rather than rupture. Where Francis emphasized decentralization and the local Church, Leo XIV appears to underscore communion through presence—his own.

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According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, Buddhism is the only religion to have fewer believers in 2020 than in 2010, a drop of 18.6 million, largely due to a low birth rate in predominantly Buddhist countries as well as changes in youth culture in Southeast Asian societies. At 40, the average age among Buddhists is the highest among various religions.

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Still, in the face of this long night of repression, the Pentecost ordinations offered a flicker of grace. The eight new deacons—products of a diocesan seminary that still holds over a hundred seminarians, as well as a Redemptoris Mater house of formation—stand as a testament to perseverance

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The Vatican confirmed Lin’s appointment on June 5, just days before the ceremony. It was made, the Holy See said, “in the context of dialogue regarding the implementation of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China”

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