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Questions about liturgy: Is the water still blessed when unblessed water is added to it?

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

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German Bishop Promotes Gender Ideology in Schools; Parents Speak Out to Rome; Vatican Remains Silent

Hamburg’s Catholic Schools Face a Test of Parental Trust — and Rome’s Silence

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Leo XIV Speaks Out in Support of Palestinians Attacked by Jewish Settlers in Tierra Sana: Here’s What’s Happening

The episode has become more than another isolated clash in the West Bank. It has exposed, in a matter of days, the convergence of three increasingly serious problems: settler violence, the difficulty of protecting Palestinian civilians under occupation, and the weakening of the institutions that provide basic services to them.

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The Assumption of the Virgin (and What It Has to Do with Us), Explained by Pope Leo XIV

Homily by Pope Leo XIV on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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For the first time, a Jewish woman will serve as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this story is that many of those celebrating Levine's election insist that it is not primarily about her being Jewish. Colleagues point instead to decades of collaboration, friendship, committee service, editorial work, and intellectual leadership within the association

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Leo XIV presents the Mass as the primary school of liturgical formation and calls on priests to remain faithful to approved texts

Letter of the Holy Father to H.E. Card. Arthur Roche on the occasion of the Liturgical Conference at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon, USA

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U.S.: Bishop of San Antonio Announces the Laying Off of a Former Priest Found Guilty of Crimes Against the Faith

Notice of John Mary Foster’s Resignation from the Clergy and Prohibition on Attending “Mission of Divine Mercy” in Canyon Lake

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PHOTO GALLERY: León XIV baseball team pays tribute to the Pope: a packed stadium, a nun pitching the ball, the biggest campaign in the team’s history

The attraction was not simply the game between the White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The real draw was the man whose roots stretch from the Vatican back to Chicago’s working-class South Side. More than 38,000 spectators packed the stadium on August 11, many arriving early to secure one of the now-famous papal-style hats created in honor of the pontiff, born Robert Prevost and long associated with the White Sox

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Bishop Who Disappeared Under the Nicaraguan Dictatorship Reappears on Camera, but Questions Mount

The video surfaced shortly after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to expand protective measures for Mata and four people associated with him, describing the situation as one of extreme gravity and a potential risk of irreparable harm

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Peruvian government declares the Pope’s visit a “matter of national interest” and prepares for gatherings of up to 1 million people

The decision, approved by the Council of Ministers on August 12, is more than a protocol measure. It enables the government to coordinate security, logistics, customs procedures, and public services for a trip that is expected to involve between 700,000 and 1 million people nationwide.

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