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Archdiocese denies Sri Lanka cardinal advocated for appointment of government officials (The Morning)
Posted on 06/17/2026 05:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The spokesman, Father Cyril Gamini Fernando, “also urged the public not to be misled by false and defamatory information circulating on social media regarding the ongoing Easter Sunday attacks investigations,” according to The Morning, a newspaper based in Colombo.
The 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings killed over 260 people and injured over 500.
'Always be an instrument of truth,' Pope tells Italian newspaper (L'Adige)
Posted on 06/17/2026 05:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“New challenges await a response today from the world of information, which has only one way to overcome them: quality,” the Pope added, as he called on the newspaper to “cherish voices and faces, to uphold the integrity of every news report and every analysis, to preserve the beauty of cultures and regions, to strengthen communities through the truth that unites us all, to guide technology without succumbing to the rhetoric of a single line of thought, to respect diverse opinions, and never to give in to the temptation to maximize profits by resorting to the drug of fake news and manufactured polarization.”
L’Adidge is based in the northern Italian city of Trento.
Cardinal Ruini, key official under St. John Paul II, dead at 95 (CWN)
Posted on 06/17/2026 05:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, a leading protégé of Pope St. John Paul II, died on June 16 at the age of 95.
Vatican City, power company sign agreement on construction of energy plant (CWN)
Posted on 06/17/2026 05:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Vatican City State announced that its Governorate signed a memorandum of understanding with the Italian utility Acea to “develop a joint pathway for the definition, structuring, and progressive implementation of the agrivoltaic plant” that the Holy See will “build within the Vatican’s extraterritorial area of Santa Maria di Galeria.”
Pope to visit World Food Programme headquarters (Vatican Press Office)
Posted on 06/17/2026 04:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The WFP, an agency of the United Nations, is headquartered in Rome.
Overlapping climate emergencies threaten over 1 billion children, Vatican newspaper warns (CWN)
Posted on 06/17/2026 04:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The Vatican newspaper warned that half of the world’s children face “daily threats from at least three dangers linked to extreme weather events.”
Increase security in Nigeria, Lagos archbishop pleads (CWN)
Posted on 06/17/2026 04:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, said that increased security is the greatest gift that the nation’s leaders could give to its people.
‘Every Child Is a Dream of God’: Top 5 Moving Moments of Pope Leo XIV in Spain
Posted on 06/17/2026 03:01 AM (The Daily Register)
Pope grateful for Iran-US agreement, appeals for peace in Ukraine (CWN)
Posted on 06/17/2026 00:06 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Echoing comments made yesterday, Pope Leo XIV said this morning that he welcomes the Islamabad Memorandum between Iran and the United States.