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No Social Network Can Substitute the Mass, Says the Pope in the Preface of a Book on the Church and the Digital World

In the Preface of the book “The Church in the Digital World,” the Pope writes: “The time we have gone through has made many priests creatively active to keep in contact with the faithful and to accompany them. There was no lack of errors and excesses. However, when these attempts were focused on the message to communicate, and not on the communicator’s prominence, we must acknowledge that they were useful.”

Jun 22, 2022 21:18

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Church and World•Vatican City

These Are the Ten Countries that Give Most Money to the Pope’s Charitable Works

In the Americas, the countries that contribute most are the United States, Canada and Brazil, and in Europe they are Italy, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic. It’s interesting to note that in Asia the country that contributes most is South Korea.

Jun 21, 2022 15:32

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Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Nigeria: 15 Days Later, A New Massacre in Two Churches of the Country

Rubuh, one of the villages, was attacked on April 27, 2020 and again on January 5 of this year

Jun 21, 2022 14:45

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Local Church

Cardinal Schönborn Adds His Voice to the Criticisms against the German Synodal Way: “It’s An Instrumentalization of Abuse”

At the same time, it’s “very questionable that this really does justice to the subject of abuses and those affected,” he stressed.

Jun 18, 2022 00:52

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Local Church

Sports World Holds Summit in the Vatican in September 2022

The principal sports and inter-governmental institutions and organizations will take part in the Summit, in response to the Holy Father’s appeals for the social responsibility of sport and its importance as a means of human, educational and spiritual growth.

Jun 15, 2022 20:03

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Local Church•Pope Francis

Russia Is Open to Vatican’s Mediation in War with Ukraine

These statements of a Russian representative come, finally, in the context of the Pope’s serious consideration of a visit to the Ukrainian capital.

Jun 15, 2022 19:55

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Dicasteries•Pope Francis

After Lieutenant Luzzago’s Death, the First American to Head the Order of Malta Is a New York Lawyer

Brother John Dunlap is a lawyer and member of the College of Lawyers of New York State and a Barrister and Solicitor of the College of Lawyers of the Province of Ontario, Canada. In 1986 he joined the Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller law firm, becoming a partner in 1993.

Jun 14, 2022 22:24

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Local Church

Israeli Radicals Seek to Appropriate Properties of the Church, Alerts Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem

“I can say that over the last years we have witnessesd, especially on the part of some Israeli extremist and radical fringes, an attempt to take advantage of the weakness of the Churches to appropriate strategic properties, in this case close to the Jaffa Gate in the Old City,” said the Patriarch.

Jun 14, 2022 22:16

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Local Church

Analysis of the Ignored Massacre in Nigeria

It doesn’t seem that Boko Haram, the main ‘natural” suspect of this sort of violence in Nigeria, was responsible for the incident. However, this doesn’t mean that the attack doesn’t have a religious connotation, said Ebenezer Obadare, principal investigator of the Foreign Relations Council.

Jun 13, 2022 15:18

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Local Church•Testimonies

172 Children of Iraq Make Their First Communion in the Land that the Islamic State Had Destroyed

The Catholic region of Iraq, which was controlled and destroyed by the Islamic State from 2014 to 2016, witnessed the Beauty of 172 First Communions.

Jun 13, 2022 15:05

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Local Church

German Franciscans Elect as Provincial Superior a Friar Openly Declared Homosexual

The German Episcopate’s official news portal did not hesitate to place and highlight the new “gay” Superior on its front page, adding: “the new Head of the German Province of the Franciscan Order advocates changes in Catholic sexual morality.”

Jun 12, 2022 14:37

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Pope Francis

From Saint Peter’s Square Pope Francis Apologizes to the Congo and South Sudan for Cancelling His Visit

The cancellation of the papal trip to the Congo and South Sudan , planned for early July, leads to the possibility of the cancellation of the trip to Canada at the end of July.

Jun 12, 2022 14:28

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Traits of a diplomacy of hope: the Pope’s address to ambassadors with whom the Vatican has diplomatic relations

Address of the Pope to the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for the presentation of New Year greetings.

of the 194 countries, the Holy See does not have diplomatic relations with ten

Vatican Reveals Number of Countries with Which It Has Diplomatic Relations

At present, 184 States have full diplomatic relations with the Holy See. To these must be added the European Union and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. There are 90 Diplomatic Missions accredited to the Holy See with headquarters in Rome, among them those of the European Union and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.