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The latest controversy concerns an internal email dated August 28, 2026, from the archdiocese’s vicar general, Father Sascha-Philipp Geißler. He characterized the parents’ campaign as an attempt to create uncertainty and discord in school communities, and advised employees not to respond to the network’s messages or enter into debate

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The shroud, they said, commemorated children killed in the months after ceasefires were announced in Gaza and Lebanon. The network reported that more than 300 children had died in Gaza since October 2025 and around 150 in Lebanon over the previous five months.

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She told katholisch.de that excluding abusers is necessary to protect other participants, some of whom may themselves be survivors and could be retraumatized by sharing a therapeutic setting with a perpetrator. The centre’s purpose, she stressed, is support and recovery—not treatment for people who have committed sexual abuse

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Bonny’s initiative is driven, he says, by a shortage of local clergy that is increasingly affecting the Church’s ability to serve communities beyond parish life. Antwerp has fewer than 70 priests under the age of 70, according to figures cited by the bishop, and around two-thirds of them come from abroad

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Leo XIV plans to visit the Devoto prison during his pastoral trip to Argentina. Will he also go to Urdampilleta?

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Pope's General Audience, September 23, 2026, on the meaning of human activity in the universe

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these figures illustrate the evolution of the Church in the country, which welcomed Saint John Paul II in 1980 and is now receiving Pope Leo XIV

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The prayer will take place on the evening of Saturday, September 26.

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Companies, artisans, social integration workshops, religious communities, and numerous volunteers mobilized across various regions of France to create albs, stoles, altar cloths, crosses, and various liturgical ornaments and furnishings.

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Leo XIV has made the ethical governance of AI a central concern of his pontificate

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