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Nearly a Billion Listens Later, a Priest, a Microphone, and a Bible That Keeps Speaking

Bible in a Year remains available across all major podcast platforms, maintaining the accessibility that helped drive its early growth

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Cardinals will return to Rome for a new Consistory in June 2026 requested by Pope Leo XIV

The January gathering brought together 170 cardinals, both electors and non-electors, marking the first such assembly of Leo XIV’s pontificate. The June meeting, he explained, will not be an isolated event

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“Pray with the Pope”: A renewed invitation to pray for his monthly prayer intentions

An invitation from the Holy Father to pray for the challenges facing humanity

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León XIV to cardinals: “We gather not to promote personal or group “agendas”

Homily by Pope Leo XIV on the second day of the extraordinary consistory at the Vatican

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Pope Leo XIV Reflects on Vatican Council II and Its Documents Thus Initiating a New Series of Catecheses

The Pope’s General Audience on January 7, 2026 was an introduction to a new series of catecheses on Vatican Council II and its Documents

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Liturgy and the Roman Curia are left out as topics for Leo XIV’s first consistory: this was discussed

Time constraints required the assembly to select only two subjects from a list of four. Alongside the two chosen themes were liturgy and the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, which reformed the Roman Curia and its service to local Churches

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Austria Opens a New Path to the Priesthood for Midlife Professionals

The conference has stressed that the initiative aligns fully with Vatican norms, particularly those outlined in the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis, the foundational document governing priestly formation worldwide

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U.S. Congressional Report Maps a Broadening Repression in China

The document released by the U.S. Congressional‑Executive Commission on China (quoting several “Bitter Winter” articles) insists on religious persecution.

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