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Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo overhauls Vatican finance watchdog, revises Rome vicariate reforms in busy day of decrees
Pope Leo XIV spent what is traditionally his weekly day off on Tuesday issuing a flurry of legislation and appointments June 30.
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SSPX ordains four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo and the Vatican
The SSPX ordained four new bishops without a papal mandate in Switzerland, triggering automatic excommunication for all six bishops involved.
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Pope Leo appoints Italian sister to top Vatican post
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Alessandra Smerilli as prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, making her the first woman to head this major Vatican office.
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Pope Leo makes final appeal to SSPX before schismatic ordination of bishops: ‘Please turn back!’
Pope Leo made a last-minute appeal to the SSPX to “turn back” from illicitly ordaining bishops, saying, “to tear the seamless garment of Christ is a sin of extreme gravity.”
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Pope Leo urges 35 new metropolitan archbishops to be ‘apostles and builders of unity’
Pope Leo XVI placed the pallium on the shoulders of 35 new metropolitan archbishops appointed over the last year during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.
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Pope Leo XIV calls for solidarity, prayers after deadly Venezuela quakes
Venezuelan government officials reported June 28 that the death toll reached 1,450 and thousands more were injured.
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Pope Leo closes consistory with appeal for peace, continued emphasis on synodality
“We must not resign ourselves to violence. God continues to open paths of reconciliation and peace throughout history. We have a responsibility to walk these paths with courage and to help the world recognize them.”
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After Iran debacle, is the Trump admin ready to listen to the Vatican?
After the Iran debacle, are U.S. diplomats ready to accept that the path to the geopolitical good, if not to the perfect, lies through diplomacy and compromise, not threats and missile strikes?
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Pope Leo issues challenge to cardinals gathered in Rome: ‘Learn synodality by practicing it’
Leo also surprised the cardinals by telling them, “I wish to ask you for your help.”