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In an interview with Vatican media on March 4, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, offered one of the most detailed assessments yet of the crisis

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Archbishop Caccia, 68, has served as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations since 2019, and succeeds Cardinal Christophe Pierre, 80, who has held the post since 2016

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With approximately 6 million visitors each year, Cologne Cathedral ranks among the most visited religious monuments on the continent. Its immense stone surfaces, stained-glass windows and intricate sculptures require constant conservation work carried out by a permanent team of specialists.

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The twentieth edition will devote particular attention to the role of lay collaborators involved in this ministry. In many dioceses around the world, qualified laypeople assist priests in listening to those seeking help and in accompanying them spiritually. Organizers say this reality requires proper formation, careful discernment and close collaboration with ecclesiastical authorities

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By linking financial penalties to national economic standards and formalizing their application, the Polish bishops have created one of the clearest examples so far of how those reforms are being translated from the pages of canon law into everyday governance within the Church

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Beyond his positions on national security and immigration policy, Mullin is widely known for his strong social conservative views. A father of six children—three of whom are adopted—he has frequently spoken about his Christian faith and its influence on his political convictions.

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Another dimension Leo XIV emphasized was the human element of storytelling. Technology may accelerate the flow of information, he observed, but experience and judgment remain essential for interpreting events and giving them meaning

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The war between Israel and the United States against Iran, which has been inflaming the Middle East for days, from the Arab Gulf nations to Turkey (and Cyprus, in Europe), also affects Iraqi Christians who fear further progression into a “critical and delicate phase”

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Although Robin Ward was educated in what he described as a "Low Church" form of Anglicanism, characterized by the use of the Book of Common Prayer, austere liturgy, and a Protestant approach to the sacraments, his experience at Oxford and his encounter with the Anglo-Catholic tradition sparked in him a deeper search for the identity of the Church.

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

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