Mystical Phenomena and Holiness Explained by Pope Leo XIV

Nov 13, 2025 13:50

Pope Leo XIV received in audience the participants in a Congress on mystical phenomena and holiness of life Photo: Vatican Media

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Palestinian president announces investment in restoration of Jesus Christ’s birthplace

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Church and World•Pope Leo XIV•Vatican City

Pope Leo XIV opens the Vatican to Hollywood with an audience attended by these actors and actresses

Ahead of the gathering, the Vatican released a short video message in which Leo XIV shared four films that, he said, “speak to my heart.”

Nov 12, 2025 17:16

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“Not in my name”: German bishop turns his back on document full of gender ideology from his country’s episcopate

The controversy reveals a deeper tension running through the German Church’s current path: the attempt to reconcile the universal claims of Catholic doctrine with the fluid language of the modern age

Nov 12, 2025 17:11

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Local Church

Syria: Christians return to Ghassaniyah

Christian families are returning to the village in the Orontes Valley to claim their homes and lands 14 years after it was occupied by armed Islamists, who killed Fr François Mourad. For Father Ielpo, custos of the Holy Land, every true reconstruction is based “on the strength of faith, and of the power of forgiveness”.

Nov 12, 2025 17:07

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Vogue praises the Pope’s “elegance” and places him on its annual list of best-dressed people

Vogue singled out the pope’s first public appearance after his election as the defining image of his papacy’s visual identity. Standing on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo XIV wore a red satin mozzetta and a wine-colored stole embroidered in gold, completed by a pectoral cross suspended from a golden silk cord

This is how the Pope explains how we are called to unite our waiting for the Savior with attention to what God is doing in the world

Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, December 14, 2025

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Mystical Phenomena and Holiness Explained by Pope Leo XIV

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