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Warning against a “dangerous relativization of truth,” the Pontiff said that “misunderstood compassion, even if apparently motivated by pastoral zeal, risks obscuring the necessary dimension of ascertaining the truth proper to the judicial office.”

“On the other hand, there can at times be a cold and detached affirmation of the truth that does not take into account all that love for people requires, omitting those concerns dictated by respect and mercy, which must be present in all stages of a proceeding,” he added.

The Roman Rota’s responsibilities are described in the 2022 apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia, Praedicate Evangelium (nos. 200-204).

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, now the apostolic nuncio to Lithuania, told EWTN News that the new pope has brought a “whole new positive dimension ... When you read his catechesis or sermons, you can sense that this is a man who lives and proclaims the faith with an Augustinian spirit.”

Archbishop Gänswein also criticized the Synodal Way in his native Germany. While “no doubt there is indeed a need to change and reform certain things here and there,” the Synodal Way, he said, “is not about a return to a deepening of the faith but about a watering down of the faith.”

“The incident occurred on Saturday night when the officers ordered a motorcyclist travelling along the Kirindiwita-Udugampola Road to stop,” a leading Sri Lankan newspaper reported. “The motorcyclist reportedly failed to comply, prompting the officers to pursue and arrest him.”

In a recent visit to the diocesan commission for her beatification cause in Valladolid, Spain, Cardinal Aguiar “said that years of study had led him to a firm conviction about Isabella’s personal sanctity and the urgency of making it better known,” according to the ZENIT news agency.

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He pointed in particular to the queen’s landmark Royal Decree of 1503, which affirmed that the indigenous peoples of the newly encountered territories were to enjoy the same rights as subjects in Spain itself—an extraordinary position for its time.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has documented over 400 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States since 2020.

The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis issued statements following the killing of Alex Pretti.

Cardinal Parolin took part in ecumenical Vespers at Copenhagen’s Lutheran cathedral, visited a Carmelite monastery and a Benedictine convent, and celebrated Mass in the Catholic cathedral in commemoration of the 1200th anniversary of St. Ansgar’s evangelizing mission in Denmark.

Today, Cardinal Parolin is scheduled to meet with Denmark’s king and minister of foreign affairs. He will also visit a seminary.

Pope Leo has appointed Father Cyril Villareal, a priest of the Archdiocese of Capiz in the Philippines, as the bishop of Kalibo.

Participants discussed the “goal of promoting economic development compatible with socio-climate justice and a dignified and abundant life for all, in tune with the message of the Church,” the Argentine news site Informe Digital reported.

“We thought it was useful to bring together leading entrepreneurs from the energy and mining industries with His Holiness to discuss issues such as caring for our common home, climate change and the strong demand for minerals that is growing due to artificial intelligence,” said José Luis Manzano.