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Within Your Gates, Jerusalem

“Within Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem” is born, a new interdisciplinary forum promoted by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and developed in collaboration with the academic center of the University of Notre Dame.

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Cardinal Bo: ‘We need a new paradigm’ for peace

Speaking at an international conference in Rome, the Cardinal of Myanmar calls for nonviolence to become a new framework for legitimate defence, while participants receive a message and blessing from Pope Leo XIV.

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Mozambique: Bishops await official response regarding the death of Bishop Osorio

Bishops in Mozambique are reflecting on the violent death of Bishop Osorio Citora Afonso, the Ordinary of Quelimane and Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Beira. The bishops lament the lack of clarity about the circumstances of the prelate's death.

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Ukraine: ‘Exhaustion, but also resilience’ amid intensifying attacks

As Ukraine approaches another winter of war, CAFOD’s Henry Wilson-Smith describes a population living under almost constant air-raid alerts, preparing for power cuts and relying on local humanitarian networks to rebuild lives damaged by years of conflict.

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Scholas Chairs Congress: AI must liberate, not enslave

The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue participated in the meeting in Indonesia organized by Scholas Occurrentes and United in Diversity. In addition to commemorating the second anniversary of Pope Francis’s apostolic journey to Southeast Asia and the signing of the Istiqlal Interreligious Declaration, the event reflected on themes from the encyclical “Magnifica humanitas” and the “sensible” use of technology.

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The Polish harvest tradition mentioned by Pope Leo

A look at Poland’s traditional harvest thanksgiving celebrations, known as “dożynki", which Pope Leo reflected on at the General Audience.

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French Bishops: There is a spiritual thirst in the country as it awaits the Pope

The President of the French Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, along with other bishops, present details of Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming apostolic journey to France from September 25 to 28 at a press conference. They speak about the budget, the organizational efforts, the Journey’s motto, the Pope’s meeting with survivors of abuse and more.

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Pope at Audience: Human dignity must always be defended as God’s gift

At his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his reflection on Vatican II’s ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ and says the dignity of every human person is a permanent gift of God’s love that we must defend.

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Pope: Emphasis on individual freedom makes us less free to be ourselves

Pope Leo XIV tells Bishops associated with the Focolare Movement that our modern emphasis on individual freedom can in reality make us less free to be our genuine selves or follow our highest ideals.

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Thousands of West Africa’s young Catholics meet at first-ever regional youth gathering in Ghana

Powerful messages are appearing on billboards across Ghana as thousands of young Catholics from across West Africa gather in Accra this week.

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