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agosto, 2026

Is the water still blessed when unblessed water is added to it?

Good News•Pope Leo XIV

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

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Persecuted Christians•Religious Freedom

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

Controversies

Appointment of an Alleged Freemason to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences Sparks Controversy

The Holy See announced on August 13 that Leo XIV had appointed Longo, director of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages and a professor of medieval history at Sapienza University of Rome, alongside Francesco Cesareo, emeritus president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Anna Barańska, an associate professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.