The Vatican has released the framework for a fall meeting marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia” and focusing on the Church‘s pastoral approach to families.
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Read: Pope Leo’s message to the United States on its 250th anniversary
Pope Leo delivered his message upon receiving the Liberty Medal from the National Constitutional Center on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.
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Analysis: SSPX excommunications show what Pope Leo means by church ‘unity’
What do these decisions tell us about Pope Leo XIV and his understanding both of the SSPX and of the church unity that is central to his papacy?
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Vatican provides SSPX priests, lay faithful with procedure to return to Catholic communion after schism
VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has established a procedure for both priests and lay faithful connected to the Society of St. Pius X to return to Catholic communion, following the society’s schismatic act July 1. The instructions are being transmitted through apostolic nunciatures, as previously announced in […]
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Vatican declares excommunicated SSPX bishops, warns priests and lay faithful of schism
Today, the Vatican has taken a stricter, more inflexible position than those taken under Popes Benedict XVI and Francis.
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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.