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What Makes the Man?
The Catholic Thing
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August 21, 2025
One sign of our improbably ludicrous times is that the question, “What is a woman?” has become a point of political contention in recent years. The obvious answer (obvious, that is, until just yesterday) has proven unsatisfactory to the keepers of...
Pray before announcing prophecies – Cardinal Appiah Turkson to Prophets
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 14, 2025
His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences at the Vatican, has advised the clergy and prophets to pray and intercede before making public any prophecy, particularly those...
Peace in Ukraine Is Not a Real-Estate Deal
The Atlantic
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August 21, 2025
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts President Donald Trump’s two most recent international summits—in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then at the White House this week with...
Too little, too late: The church's inadequate response to AI-human evolution
Global Sisters Report
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August 12, 2025
While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, while ethically sophisticated, seems to...
From Mont Blanc to Rome: Heat waves are suffocating Europe
El País
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August 13, 2025
With a stubborn heat wave gripping much of the continent, Europe is sweltering. From the peaks of Mont Blanc in France to the scorched slopes of Vesuvius in southern Italy, extreme temperatures are causing deaths from heatstroke — such as that of...
Trump turns up the heat. Fed Chair Jerome Powell tries to keep his cool.
Mint
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August 21, 2025
The Federal Reserve chair later told an associate he felt locked in, prepared for questions about the central bank’s chief roles—keeping inflation low and Americans employed. Powell looked steeled for criticism, and he didn’t have to wait long. A...
Will the Global Plastics Treaty Safeguard Health?
New Security Beat - Washington DC
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August 13, 2025
Global plastic production is increasing almost exponentially. Not only has it grown 250-fold since the 1950s, but it is on track to double by 2040, and nearly triple by 2060. The waste associated with its creation has accumulated in parallel. An...
Pilgrims embrace faith, joy during Jubilee of Hope in Rome
Texas Catholic
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August 21, 2025
By Amy White The Texas Catholic ROME — During a Jubilee of Hope Delegate Send-Off Mass July 24, Bishop Edward J. Burns urged the Diocese of Dallas pilgrims who filled the pews of St. Rita Catholic Church to pray for three things during their...
Nigeria - Bandits in Katsina State target a Church and a Mosque
Vatican News
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August 20, 2025
“The people of Katsina State deserve to live in security and not in fear.” These are the words of Farouk Lawal Jobe, the acting Governor of Katsina. The Governor has since appealed to the President of the Nigerian Federation, Bola Tinubu, to take...
The British comedy classic on Pope's official film recommendations list
Daily Express
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August 13, 2025
It holds a rare 100 per cent positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and was voted the 13th greatest British film of all time in a BFI poll of leading industry figures.70 years since its release and the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning black comedy The...
NATO defense chiefs discuss security for Ukraine
Tribune Chronicle - Ohio
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BRUSSELS — NATO defense chiefs held a “candid discussion” Wednesday about what security guarantees they could offer Kyiv to help forge a peace agreement that ends Russia’s three-year war on Ukraine, a senior alliance official said. Italian Admiral...
Pope Leo is focused on AI. What should his guidance offer the world?
Religion News Service
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August 4, 2025
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — From the start of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV signaled his interest — and concern — over the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, prompting many Vatican observers to believe a major papal document might be coming to...
Features : Bridging Centuries With Technology: Safeguarding Malaysia's Heritage
Bernama
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August 21, 2025
Once rooted firmly in the soil, Malaysia’s cultural heritage is now finding a second home in the digital cloud. From ancient manuscripts revived through augmented reality to virtual journeys into the Japanese occupation, technologies such as...
Fact-checking miracles: inside the multiyear effort to canonize Sister Blandina Segale
Santa Fe Reporter - New Mexico
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August 20, 2025
By Molly Montgomery, Searchlight New Mexico There are lines in an old play that changed a woman in Albuquerque into a magician. Her name is Lisa Cousins. This was maybe 30 years ago. She loved to read, especially books about the spiritual realm,...
On Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone
naked capitalism
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August 20, 2025
Yves here. This article provides a useful complement to Putin’s many remarks about the history of Ukraine from a Russia perspective. It examines the forces that led to the formation of Ukraine as a “self-constructed identity” yet why it was left...
Cardinal Cupich’s many talents prepared him for Chicago, colleagues say
Chicago Catholic - Illinois
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When Cardinal Cupich was appointed archbishop of Chicago in 2014, Father Louis Cameli was delighted. Cameli, now the cardinal’s delegate for formation and mission, has known Cardinal Cupich “forever,” he said. Or at least, more than 50 years, from...
Intelsat Beams Lifesaving Internet Connections To Bombarded Ukrainians
Forbes
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When the Kremlin's commanders began blasting Ukrainian cities and cultural centers, cathedrals and children with exploding missiles, the Western satellite colossus Intelsat teamed up with Help.NGO to rush life-saving internet terminals into the...
Top 30 Hottest NFL Wives & Girlfriends Of 2025
93.5 & 107.5 The Fan - Indiana
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August 20, 2025
In the star-studded world of the NFL, the spotlight often shines not only on the guys putting in the work on the gridiron but also on the captivating women who stand by their sides as their main supporters.Welcome to the list where we celebrate...
Catholic Sisters at Recent G20 Interfaith Forum in South Africa Thankful for Opportunity to Contribute to Global Issues
ACI Africa
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August 19, 2025
She emphasized that when efforts to address poverty and hunger are entrusted to religious leaders, those interventions would be more likely to reach the people directly and have a meaningful impact, particularly at the household level. “When you...
The path to Rome
The Times Literary Supplement
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August 20, 2025
Many people are familiar with Oscar Wilde’s last words, spoken as he lay dying in a Paris hotel in 1900, and first reported by his friend, the Anglo-French writer Claire de Pratz: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the...