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Vatican official warns of AI’s hidden costs to environment, work and society
Catholic Star Herald - New Jersey
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August 27, 2025
Bishop Paul Tighe, a top official at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, poses while speaking to OSV News following his address, “Theology and Mission in an Age of Artificial Intelligence” to the Congress of the European Society for...
US Rep. Vicente Gonzalez meets with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City
Brownsville Herald - Texas
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August 26, 2025
Only have a minute? Listen instead U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Brownsville, met with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City last Saturday, according to an announcement Tuesday from the congressman’s office. Gonzalez’s audience...
From Chicago to the Vatican, a white ping-pong table for Leo XIV
Aleteia
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August 26, 2025
A white ping-pong table “made in Chicago,” engraved with the papal coat of arms, was presented to Leo XIV by Robert Blackwell Jr., CEO of Killerspin. In a corner of Paul VI Hall filled with thousands of people who had come to the audience, an...
Ancient Roman apartment building found beneath public square amid subway construction
Fox News
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An amateur metal detectorist's discovery of Roman cavalry swords led archaeologists to uncover a 2,000-year-old settlement in Gloucestershire, including a villa and building remains. (Source: Cotswold Archaeology; Historic England) NEWYou can now...
Vatican-Türkiye diplomacy: Pope Leo’s visit to Iznik
Sabah
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August 21, 2025
In April of this year, the death of Pope Francis cast his followers into profound grief. He had planned a visit to Türkiye to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea (Iznik), which also coincides with the Jubilee Year....
Google: Chinese cyber espionage targeting Southeast Asian diplomats
Asia News
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August 27, 2025
Today's news: In Aceh two men jailed for homosexual relations were whipped 76 times. “Peace be with you all" is the theme chosen by Pope Leo XIV for 2026 World Peace Day. Israeli drones kill six Syrian soldiers on the outskirts of Damascus. At...
Regulators approve energy plan for massive Meta data center in north Louisiana
Minden Press Herald - Louisiana
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August 22, 2025
4 By Tristan Baurick, Verite News This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Verite News and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. State regulators on Wednesday authorized a controversial plan to power a massive...
The Latest: US-bound evacuee flights depart Italy
Samoa Observer
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MILAN — Aircraft carrying U.S. citizens and Afghan nationals evacuated from the chaos in Afghanistan have left Italy headed to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. A joint statement from the Naval Air Station in Sigonella and the U.S. Embassy in Rome...
Our Climate Vulnerable Countries are Drowning in Debt Payments | Opinion
Newsweek
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August 27, 2025
As a representative of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, I've found that it is not just coastlines that are increasingly underwater—but economies too. The Climate Vulnerable Forum's Vulnerable Twenty Group (CVF-V20) represents 74...
Vatican elevates Ahmadi church to minor basilica
Kuwait Times
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August 18, 2025
KUWAIT: The Vatican has elevated the Church of Our Lady of Arabia in Ahmadi, Kuwait, to the rank of Minor Basilica, the first of its kind in the Gulf region. The decree, issued on June 28 by the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of...
Vatican elevates Kuwait’s Church of Our Lady of Arabia to Minor Basilica
Kuwait Times
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August 18, 2025
The Vatican has elevated the Church of Our Lady of Arabia in Ahmadi, Kuwait, to the rank of Minor Basilica, the first of its kind in the Gulf region. The decree, issued on June 28 by the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the...
Savelli Religious: A Century-Old Family Shop Beside the Vatican
Daily Sundial - California
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August 20, 2025
Branded Content by Cosmic Press Visiting the Vatican often means looking up at the grandeur of St. Peter’s Basilica, but just beyond its colonnade there are treasures at street level too. Tucked among cafés and cobblestone alleys is a shop where...
Politics and the Birthday Party
The Catholic Thing
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August 27, 2025
July 2026 marks the 250th birthday of the United States. Alas, the celebration next year will come in the midst of yet another election cycle, and at a time of deep cultural divisions. We need a “common good” politics more than ever. But that’s...
'Bodh Gaya should be Vatican of East': Author blasts govt for letting Indian tourism rot
Business Today
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August 18, 2025
India's 1.4 billion people attract fewer foreign tourists than a single European city, said author and scientist Dr Anand Ranganathan, who blasted the Indian government for failing to act on "low-hanging fruit" like tourism during an event...
Vatican to Examine Central Louisiana’s ‘Little Cajun Saint’ for Potential Sainthood
Red River Radio - Louisiana
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August 13, 2025
There’s an unfolding story decades in the making, with its roots in rural Central Louisiana, eventually leading to the very steps of Vatican City inside Rome. This story involves the powerful claim of sainthood based on the deeds of a 12-year-old...
Bulawayo’s Catholic sisters turn to renewable energy
Southern Eye
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"We have five solar-powered boreholes supporting horticulture and also our residence," said Sr. Caroline Busvumani, during atour of the Precious Blood sisters' project. Green energy has become the buzzword of sustainable agriculture amid climate...
Bishop Lodiong’s passion plea for peace and dialogue in South Sudan
Vatican News
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August 26, 2025
South Sudan’s Catholic Bishop of Yei Diocese, Bishop Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo, has emphasised that there is no alternative to dialogue and sitting together at the round table to resolve the country’s political differences. Paul Samasumo – Vatican...
I’m a film critic at Venice 2025 – I can’t wait for these 10 movies
Metro
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August 27, 2025
The 82nd Venice International Film Festival is now upon us – and massive movies await (Picture: La Biennale di Venezia) The 2025 Venice Film Festival kicks off today, displaying a line-up stuffed to the gills with talent and exciting upcoming...
Vatican under fire for alleged money-laundering dodge
Politico Europe
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August 11, 2025
Milone said he didn't know exactly how the tools would have bypassed these restrictions, but that he saw evidence that transactions were edited. God's banker Ahead of the May conclave that elected Leo, cardinals complained about a budget deficit...
Pope to inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si' during Season of Creation
Detroit Catholic
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August 26, 2025
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Two months after celebrating a new Mass "for the care of creation," Pope Leo XIV will return to Castel Gandolfo to formally inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si', a place of education, ecology and spirituality in the papal summer...