Meeting with the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, Pope Leo XIV highlights the importance of the Church’s Social Doctrine in a divided world, saying freedom must be lived as self-giving and dialogue grounded in truth.

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Pope Leo XIV tells participants in a Vatican conference on mental health, education, and digital technology that young people need help rediscovering silence, relationships, and openness to transcendence.

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As the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Fr. Marion Nguyen, OSB, offers his thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings under the theme: “The Light we resist, the Love we seek”.

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Pope Leo XIV and the Canadian Prime Minister hold a telephone conversation on the themes of the Pope’s recently published encyclical, as well as on efforts for peace among peoples, particularly in the Middle East and Ukraine, and on topics of common interest.

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Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin speaks at a Vatican conference on mental health, digital technologies, and education, lamenting that society offers young people every means available but no purpose.

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Bishop of Trier, Germany, from 332, and a miracle worker. He was probably born at Silly, France, and succeeded St. Agritus as bishop of Trier, giving refuge to St. Athanasius in 336. St. Paul, the patriarch of Constantinople, was also given Maximinus� protection. Maximinus was an ardent enemy of the Arian heretics, opposing them in the councils of Milan, Sardica, and Cologne. He was a known miracle worker and apologist for orthodox Catholicism and was called �one of the most courageous ...

Ten contemplative monasteries are preparing thousands of rosaries for Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic visit to Spain. The small hand-crafted objects are born of silence, prayer, manual labour, and the help of young volunteers.

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An Armenian music concert takes place at the Vatican to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Armenian section of Vatican Radio-Vatican News.

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In an interview with Vatican News, Archbishop Ronald Hicks of New York calls Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical 'Magnifica humanitas' essential for generations to come and insists that Pope Leo is raising the right issues, especially on the transforming nature of work, as young people of his Archdiocese ask: 'Am I studying for a career that won't exist in 10 years?'

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WASHINGTON - On May 27, an Emergency Presidential Determination (PD) on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 was published in the Federal Register, based on the President’s finding of “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation.” This new rule will allow 10,000 individuals, exclusively Afrikaners from South Africa, to be admitted to the United States as refugees. 

Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, issued the following statement:  

“Offering refuge to the world’s vulnerable and persecuted is a founding principle of our country and it is uniquely what makes this country great. For decades, the United States was known for offering this opportunity, not favoring one particular group, but granting relief in accordance with our laws, our shared values, and the national interest. Today, however, that is sadly not the case. We appreciate the Administration’s acknowledgement that our country can continue to resettle refugees, and we renew our call for resettlement to be extended further to others in need, including those persecuted on the basis of their faith, the likes of whom have no access to refuge in our country at this time.” 

Last October, Bishop Cahill’s predecessor also addressed the disparate treatment of refugees taking place. In January 2025, the president placed an indefinite suspension to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and set the PD for FY 2026 at 7,500 refugees. Virtually all the refugees resettled were Afrikaners granted individualized exceptions to the suspension. At the time the refugee admissions program was suspended, over 100,000 people from a range of countries had been conditionally approved for refugee status in the United States and were awaiting resettlement through the program, some after being in the process for several years.

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