Immaculate Conception Parish

Address by the Holy Father Leo XIV to participants in the formation course for new Bishops

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Remarks by the Holy Father to the bishops who are friends of the Focolare Movement

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The Advocate General is expected to issue a formal opinion on October 1, 2026. Although that opinion will not be binding, it could influence the court’s eventual judgment, expected toward the end of 2026 or in 2027.

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Pope's General Audience, September 9, 2026, on Human Dignity as a Gift and a Responsibility

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The AfD's victory in Luther's home state confirms the electoral geography mapped out in 2021, yet with significant new developments: the cradle of the Reformation is now the epicenter of dissent against the religious establishment. And this is just the beginning.

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The bishops’ objection goes far beyond the legal status of surrogacy. Their central concern is that the arrangement risks transforming both motherhood and childhood into objects of a contractual transaction.

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The Latin Patriarch, in cooperation with the University of Notre Dame, inaugurated Within Your Gates, a forum that brings together scholars, religious, and civic leaders to study and publicise the “universal vocation of Jerusalem”. The prelate asks “with honesty and humility” what purpose this city serves and what it asks of us.

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This is the first case file received in the Netherlands requesting euthanasia for a child since the expansion of euthanasia legislation in 2024. Previously, euthanasia could already be requested for infants under one year of age and for children over twelve.

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The government authorized the transfer of the funds to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organize the Pope’s visit from November 11 to 16, according to a supreme decree published in the country’s official gazette on September 5.

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Shared criteria for discerning new institutes, a delegate for consecrated life in every diocese, and contracts or memoranda of understanding covering formation, gender equality, remuneration and the administration of assets. And an ad limina Visit prepared with the entire local Church, experienced as an “exchange of gifts” in a dialogue that is not “one-directional”, and subject to independent evaluation.

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