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Leo XIV: True Power Comes From Virtue, Not Strength

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What Makes a ‘Catholic’ Investment? New Vatican Funds Raise the Question

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Pope Leo XIV in Algeria: God’s Heart Is Not With the Wicked Or the Arrogant

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Ancient Hippo in Return to the Roots of His Vocation

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Pope spends day in Annaba, emphasizes 'Christians are truly born from above' (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass today (video) at the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, and preached that “Christians are truly born from above.”

57 men ordained for Heralds of the Gospel after Vatican moratorium lifted (Catholic Herald)

Thirty-one deacons and 26 priests were ordained in Brazil for Virgo Flos Carmeli, the clerical branch of Heralds of the Gospels, after the Vatican lifted a seven-year moratorium on ordinations.

The Heralds were founded in 2001 in Brazil. The Vatican ordered an apostolic visitation of the association in 2017 and named Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis as pontifical commissioner. Ordinations were halted in 2019.

“The interruption directly affected candidates who had completed their formation but were unable to proceed to ordination,” The Catholic Herald reported. “No detailed public explanation was given at the time for the suspension, and the situation persisted for several years without a clear timeline for resolution.”

Cardinal Hollerich suggests female subdiaconate (Catholic Herald)

The prelate who served as relator general for the synod on synodality said in an interview that he could “imagine a subdiaconate for women.”

“While this would not involve ordination, it would still represent participation in the liturgy and assist with the Church’s diaconal ministry,” said Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., of Luxembourg.

In his 1972 apostolic letter Ministeria Quaedam, Pope St. Paul VI noted that the subdiaconate was a major order, along with the diaconate and the priesthood.

“The functions heretofore assigned to the subdeacon are entrusted to the reader and the acolyte; consequently, the major order of subdiaconate no longer exists in the Latin Church,” St. Paul VI declared. “There is, however, no reason why the acolyte cannot be called a subdeacon in some places, at the discretion of the conference of bishops.”

Church and state leaders react to tensions between President Trump, Pope Leo (Pillar)

Following President Donald Trump’s social media post blasting Pope Leo, The Pillar compiled reactions from bishops and political figures in the United States and abroad.