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Bishop Mariano Crociata of Latina-Terracina-Sezze-Priverno (Italy), COMECE’s president, said that the EU “is weakened by the lack of unity, also as a result of populism.” Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of Copenhagen (Denmark), COMECE’s vice president, said that “the issue of immigration has existed for several decades and is well known, but what appears relatively new is the way populism uses it, transforming it into an alleged threat to many societies.”

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, criticized the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Notification on the Works of Fr. Jon Sobrino, S.J..

Pope Leo XIV today addressed participants in a Vatican conference on artificial intelligence, told them that the Church’s primary concern is the eternal salvation of every human person, and said that contemplation of Christ is the means to come to the truth about God and man.

The president of the Cuban Bishops’ Conference said that “Cuba is suffering” and that “this is the saddest and most difficult time that I am aware of in the history of my people.”