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Homily by the Holy Father at the Holy Mass marking the opening of the academic year at the Pontifical Universities

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The Commission’s members approved by referendum the Instrumentum laboris for the Fourth Annual Report, due for publication in 2027 and emphasised that the meaningful participation of victims and survivors in the Annual Report process remains essential to understanding institutional responses to abuse and shaping policies capable of preventing its recurrence.

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Neither trip has been confirmed by the Holy See, but the possibility reflects the growing importance of the Guadalupe jubilee in the Mexican Church’s pastoral plans and its ambitions for a wider spiritual renewal across the Americas.

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The restoration project for the Mamilla Pool, located west of Jerusalem's Old City, is reigniting controversy; it risks obliterating the winter pool and the graves of the ancient Islamic cemetery, sites already eroded over the decades by parks, roads, parking lots, and a museum.

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A male wrestler sexually assaulted teenage female wrestler Kallie Keeler in December 2025 during a high school girls’ wrestling tournament, an event sponsored by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. Keeler and her mother are suing state officials after those officials directed Keeler to take the mat without telling anyone that she was about to wrestle a male and after the officials waited 53 days to report the sexual assault to law enforcement, in violation of a mandatory 48-hour reporting law.

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The case, known as Bisdom Gent, is now before the Court of Justice of the European Union. It follows an opinion issued on October 1 by Advocate General Laila Medina, who concluded that European data-protection law can, in principle, give a baptized person the right to have personal information removed from a baptismal register when the church cannot demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for retaining it.

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Remarks by the Pope at the beginning of the meeting with the leaders of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of the episcopal conferences, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of “Amoris laetitia”

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Pope's General Audience, October 7, 2026, on the Church's Mission in the Contemporary World

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The Master of the Order has appointed eight friars to a Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies to examine their implications for Dominican life, preaching and formation, with human dignity and the common good guiding its work.

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Leo's influence is of another kind. His intervention in the debate over artificial intelligence rests on a simple proposition: technological progress cannot be allowed to determine its own moral limits. His encyclical Magnifica Humanitas argues that technology must remain at the service of human beings rather than becoming the framework within which human beings are expected to live.

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