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Vatican: Israel targeting defenseless Gazans as world fails to stop ‘massacre’
The Vatican's top diplomat says the Israeli regime has, over the past two years, targeted the defenseless Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip amid the international community's failure to put a halt to the occupying regime’s “ongoing...

Keep Pope Leo away from Left-leaning justice-fixated, equality-seeking political activists and their dicasteries
The Vatican PR team have been the source of great excitement of late. Sometime ago, probably long before Pope Francis died, the decision was taken to host a climate justice event. It was meant to challenge climate sceptics. It came from Greenland,...

Vatican Secretary of State marks Oct. 7 anniversary, decries ‘spiral of hatred and violence’ in Gaza
The Holy See’s official news outlet marked the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and the beginning of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza with an interview in which Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin decried the terrorist...

Vatican: Israel is committing a massacre in Gaza
2025-10-06T23:03:21+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Vatican The Vatican’s top diplomat, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Monday condemned what he called the “ongoing massacre” in Gaza conducted by Israel, accusing it of waging a...

Vatican’s top diplomat says Israel carrying out ‘massacre’ in Gaza
The Vatican’s top diplomat sharply criticized Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza in comments published on Monday — one of the Catholic Church’s strongest condemnations of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group. In an interview tied to the...

Pope Leo loosens Vatican financial reins
Vatican City, Holy See—Pope Leo XIV on Monday loosened the Vatican’s rules on financial investments, rolling back a reform introduced by his predecessor Francis. In a “Motu Proprio”, or legal change, the US pope repealed Francis’s 2022 order that...

Top Vatican diplomat condemns Gaza 'carnage'
The Vatican’s top diplomat Cardinal Pietro Parolin has issued one of the Church’s strongest rebukes of Israel’s war in Gaza, denouncing what he called an “ongoing massacre” in comments published on Monday. The Vatican's secretary of state,...

Vatican, Other Catholic Libraries Turn to AI, Robotics to Digitize Collections
Since then, the Alexandria Digitization Hub’s workload has grown. Longbeard is currently working to digitize the historic collections of the Salesian Pontifical University and the Pontifical Gregorian University and plans to work with the...

Vatican attacks Israel over Gaza war: 'Inhumane and indefensible attacks'
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin sharply condemned Israel on Monday, accusing it of carrying out a “massacre” in Gaza. The statement marks one of the harshest criticisms to date from the Holy See regarding Israel’s war in Gaza —...

Pope Leo rips up Vatican laws as he unpicks Francis's troubled financial legacy
13:55 ET, 06 Oct 2025 Francis' policies were controversial(Image: Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) Pope Leo XIV has begun to roll back some of Pope Francis' more contentious financial reforms and decisions, notably...

Pope allows banks outside Vatican to manage Holy See investments
The tower of the Institute for Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank (CNS/Paul Haring) Pope Leo XIV has permitted the Holy See’s main financial body to use financial institutions outside the Vatican for its investment...

Vatican and Other Catholic Libraries Turn to AI and Robotics to Digitize Collections
Long before cloud servers and computers, medieval Catholic monks preserved the intellectual inheritance of the ancient world by handwriting Greek and Latin manuscripts. Centuries later, the Vatican Library and other Catholic institutions in Rome...

Something Spiritually Off: Pope Leo and the Strange Direction of the Vatican
When Liz Wheeler joined Glenn Beck by phone to talk about the Vatican’s recent actions, what started as a conversation about faith and leadership quickly turned toward something far deeper. Beck didn’t shy away from asking the question that’s been...

Two years after October 7: interview with the Vatican Secretary of State on Hamas terrorism and the massacre in Gaza
(ZENIT News – L´Osservatore Romano / Vatican City, 10.06.2025).- Two years have passed since Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel and the beginning of what has become a full-blown war that has razed the Gaza Strip to the ground. We look back at...

Leo XIV overturns Pope Francis’ decision and restructures Vatican finances under one principle: shared responsibility
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 10.06.2025).- In a decisive move signaling both continuity and correction, Pope Leo XIV has issued his first Apostolic Letter in the form of a «Motu Proprio», titled «Coniuncta cura»—a document that reshapes the Holy...

Top Vatican official sees 'perverse spiral of hatred' in Israel-Gaza war
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago "was inhuman and indefensible," the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel's two-year-long war on Gaza has had "disastrous and inhuman consequences." "It is unacceptable and...

Top Vatican diplomat calls October 7 Hamas attack ‘inhuman and indefensible’, says ‘Israel committing massacre in Gaza’
Ahead of the second anniversary of the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,195 people, mostly civilians, the Vatican’s top diplomat called it “inhuman and indefensible” and urged the militants to free remaining...

Men, women in the law can be ‘architects of hope’ to nation, cardinal says at Red Mass
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — At the Red Mass celebrated on the day before the Supreme Court’s new term, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy emphasized that “men and women of the law are architects of hope by reason of their vocation.” That hope, he...

Pope asks Vatican police to be witnesses of the Gospel through their work
30 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Police work is a service for the safety and security of people and institutions, Pope Leo XIV said, but it is also a way for Christians to give witness to their faith. “Yours is not just a profession: it is a service for...

Release of Leo’s first ‘Motu Proprio’ changes tack on Francis’s reforms for Vatican finances
Pope Leo XIV has issued a motu proprio entitled Coniuncta Cura, which introduces new regulations governing the financial investment activities of the Holy See. Signed on 29 September, the Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, it is...