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The result represents a dramatic turnaround from the 51.2-million-euro deficit recorded the previous year and may signal a long-awaited shift toward greater financial stability.

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On the eve of his departure for Türkiye and Lebanon, the Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities who live in war-torn or conflict zones. Leo XIV invites them to not feel abandoned and to be “seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope.” He then asks all Christians in the world “to not fall into indifference” and to be “builders of unity.”

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Pope's general audience, November 26, 2025, on how Christ's Passover illuminates the mystery of life and allows us to look at it with hope

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The new General Regulation applies to every organism forming the Curia: the Secretariat of State, the dicasteries, the tribunals, and the economic bodies entrusted with the Vatican’s finances. It creates a more coordinated administrative culture, beginning with something as banal — yet long overdue — as shared timetables

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Palestinian religious leaders and academics have issued their own stark assessment. In a recent joint statement, they argued that the UN resolution’s vision for a Peace Board, chaired by the U.S. president, represents a new form of external administration rather than a path to self-determination

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The Note proposes a vision of monogamy rooted not in rule-making but in anthropology. Marriage, it states, is built on an unbreakable exclusivity, the kind that turns two people into a single story without dissolving their individual identities

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The platforms they mentioned form a constellation familiar to anyone who observes Gen Z: TikTok leads the pack at fifty-six percent, followed closely by Instagram at fifty-two and YouTube at forty-five. Twitter/X, once the dominant arena for real-time updates, shows greater use among students at Catholic universities (forty-four percent) compared to their peers at non-Catholic institutions (twenty-nine).

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The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life responded with a concise message: the Cardinal should "wait a few months" before resigning. Based on the response, there is no indication that Pope Leo XIV was consulted regarding this refusal.

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The Archbishop of Bamenda has declared in his Pastoral Letter that the Church's position is clear: it never pays ransoms. The ultimatum, issued by the Archbishop, states that if the kidnapped priest is not released, all parishes, schools, and Catholic institutions in the Ndop Deanery -- in the northern part of the diocese where the kidnapping took place --, will be closed.

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Religious weddings accounted for just 32,473 ceremonies, with Anglican churches hosting approximately 70 percent of them.

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