AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoVatican Restoration Watch: The Vatican Museums have kicked off a five-year, $5.5 million restoration of the Raphael Loggia—an inner Apostolic Palace passageway walked by popes and presidents and last refreshed in over 500 years. Papal Arts & Letters: Pope Leo XIV met Pulitzer-winning and Nobel laureate authors at the Vatican to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Libreria Editrice Vaticana, praising writing as “an act of truth” that leads toward God. Church Governance & Liturgy: Rome rejected German bishops’ push to let lay people deliver homilies at Mass, saying the homily is reserved to ordained ministers. Indigenous Repatriation: A Swiss collector says he wants thousands of Indigenous artifacts repatriated to North American communities, after a Manitoba group urged governments to help. Global Spotlight: At the UN in Geneva, Italy, the Holy See and others backed a push for an international moratorium on surrogacy. Weather, Vatican-Adjacent: A deadly Western Europe heatwave—driven by an “Omega block”—kept breaking records and disrupting life, including in Rome’s wider region.
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