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The Porterville Recorder - California
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Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai is up for the award again with a long-awaited novel LONDON (AP) — Indian author Kiran Desai is up for the award again with her new novel “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.” Her new 677-page book is one of 13...
Pope Leo XIV mobbed by Catholic influencers at Vatican festival
The Independent
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July 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Vatican reports 2024 asset management earnings of 62 million euros
Catholic News Agency
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July 28, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 17:33 pm The Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) — the body responsible for managing the properties and investments of the small city state — presented on July 28 its financial statement for the...
The Vatican embraces Catholic influencers: ‘We are the gateway to the faith’
El País
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July 29, 2025
Paula Vega went viral in 2023 when she decided to spend her honeymoon with her husband in Rome to visit Pope Francis. They arrived dressed as bride and groom and carried their marriage certificate. “We wanted his blessing. I told him I was a...
National Entertainment Cameron Mackintosh in tribute to ‘wry, generous and utterly original’ Tom Lehrer The West End impresario said US song satirist Lehrer, who has died aged 97, ‘was a very special kind of genius’. 51 minutes ago RSS, Syndicated Cont…
Meath Chronicle
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By Casey Cooper-Fiske and Kerri-Ann Roper, PA West End impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered US song satirist Tom Lehrer as “wry, generous and utterly original” following his death aged 97. Lehrer died at his home in Cambridge,...
Pope Leo XIV warns against undermining human dignity in AI and social media era
BGNES
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July 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV called on the world to protect human "dignity" on the internet, as it faces the "challenge" of artificial intelligence. His comments came during the first liturgy in the Vatican for Catholic influencers, AFP reported. He spoke to...
Vatican Stalls Return Of Stolen Treasures From Former European Colonies
Religion Unplugged
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ROME — A leading academic who has called for the return of precious artifacts “stolen by Pope Pius XI and his missionaries” from Indigenous First Nations communities has urged Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican Museums to “rethink their colonial...
First-Ever Catholic Music Awards Celebrates Talented Artists at the Vatican
National Catholic Register
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Opera singer Luciano Lamonarca, founder and CEO of the Saint Pio Foundation also won for Best Male Singer in the English category. Musicians from around the world came together for the first-ever Catholic Music Awards on July 27 at the Auditorium...
Pope warns against undermining human 'dignity' in AI, social media era
The Peninsula
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July 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV salutes faithful during the mass for the Jubilee of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers celebrated by Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle at St. Peters’ Basilica at the Vatican on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI /...
Cardinal Tagle leads Vatican's first Jubilee Mass for Catholic influencers
Philippine STAR
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July 29, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has urged Catholic influencers to be discerning about the power they wield online and to let Jesus' love become their "true fluid of influence," as he led the Mass that celebrates the Catholic...
Celebrated musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies aged 97
Euronews
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July 28, 2025
By David Mouriquand & AP Published on 28/07/2025 - 9:10 GMT+2 Tom Lehrer, the celebrated American song satirist who lampooned politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching mathematics...
Vatican’s Jubilee of Youth to see over 500k pilgrims gather in Rome
LifeSite
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July 28, 2025
News Youth from nearly 150 countries are registered to attend, with nearly 80 percent coming from Europe. VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The week-long Jubilee of Youth begins Monday and will see hundreds of thousands of young people gather in Rome...
Holy Likes and Heavenly Looks: How 'Hot Priests' Are Preaching to the Social Media Generation
Times Now
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July 29, 2025
(L-R) Father Don Ambrogio Mazzai (Photo: Instagram/amb.mzz9), Father Giuseppe Fusari (Instagram/art.priest2023) and Father Don Cosimo Schena (Photo: Instagram/doncosimoschena) The Lord tests you, and occasionally in thirst-trapping ways. The...
Vatican praying that real-life 'hot priest' influencers can boost the church's appeal
Daily Star
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July 28, 2025
Vatican chiefs are praying that "hot priest" influencers can boost the Church's appeal. They're trying to make religion cool with social media clergy stars in a bid to attract younger followers. It comes as 1,000 digital missionaries and...
How Pope Leo XIV Can Influence Catholic Church’s New Social Media Missionaries
ACI Africa
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July 28, 2025
“Evangelization in the modern world,” he concluded, “must find the appropriate means for redirecting public attention away from spectacle and into mystery.” ‘Digital missionaries’ Almost 13 years later, the popularity of social media has...
2024 profits from Vatican investments, properties answer some of new pope’s prayers
Penn Live - Pennsylvania
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July 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is starting his pontificate with a complicated arithmetic problem. The Vatican has been running a 50 million to 60 million euro structural deficit for years and is facing a 1 billion euro pension fund shortfall, according to The...
Vatican turns to 'hot' Instagram priests to recruit new followers
IOL
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The Vatican is convening over 1,000 priests, friars, and lay digital communicators in Rome this week, aiming to explore how social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, blogs and apps can bolster outreach and help reconnect with a younger...
Vatican turns to ‘hot priests’ to rescue faith
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) In an effort to reconnect with younger generations and counter declining church attendance, the Vatican is hosting a digital evangelism summit featuring several clergy members who have gained popularity online — and have been dubbed “hot...
Tom Lehrer, math whiz who found international fame as a musical satirist, dies at 97
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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And the Black folks hate the white folks, To hate all but the right folks Is an old established rule. Liberals uneasy at having to show so much tolerance during what he lampooned as “National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week” didn’t get a...
How Pope Leo XIV can influence the Catholic Church’s new social media missionaries
Catholic News Agency
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July 28, 2025
Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 13:09 pm The Vatican welcomes more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new generation of Catholic missionaries — those sharing Christ on the internet. An active...