Rocco Buttliere cobbled together 67,000 tiny, plastic Lego pieces to create an improbably realistic 3D replica of Vatican City State.
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Pope Francis said he doesn’t understand why people refuse to take Covid-19 vaccines
“Even in the College of Cardinals, there are some negationists,” Francis said Wednesday, en route home from Slovakia.
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Pope Francis: Open your hearts to a faith that becomes compassion
Celebrating Mass on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the pope encouraged Slovak Catholics to open their hearts to a faith that “identifies with those who are hurting, suffering and forced to bear heavy crosses.”
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At Catholic Prayer Breakfast, bishop says Pope Pius XI predicted ‘woke-ism’
This year’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast had no political speakers and only a small political contingent in attendance, and there was little mention of an upcoming Supreme Court case involving a Mississippi abortion ban.
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Female Swiss Guards? New expansions open the door for change at the Vatican
A complete rebuild and expansion of the living quarters for the Swiss Guard will not only improve life for guards and their families, it will also allow for the future possibility of recruiting women.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants Americans to see the Supreme Court as nonpartisan
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed concerns Sunday that the public may increasingly see the court as a partisan institution.
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Pope Francis says Benedict XVI rightly warned against not respecting life
Pope Francis praised his predecessor’s courage in denouncing the danger of people no longer respecting or understanding the sacredness of human life in the introduction to a new book.
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Vatican Library lends Germany copy of historic edict recording Jewish life
The oldest record of 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany has arrived in Cologne, on loan from the Vatican Library thanks to intercession from Pope Francis.
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A Catalan bishop resigned after he fell in love with an erotic fiction writer. Now, the Spanish church asks the media to respect his privacy.
The cardinal commented on media reports that Bishop Xavier Novell Gomà was now cohabiting with Silvia Caballol Clemente, a divorced mother of two, following Pope Francis’ acceptance of his resignation Aug. 23.
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Wuhan ordains first bishop in 14 years
A new bishop has been installed in China’s Wuhan Diocese, making him the latest to be ordained under a deal between the Vatican and China.