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3 New Bishops Installed in Washington Archdiocese, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

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Pope Leo XIV Tells UN: Confront AI Misuse to Promote Human Dignity

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Share Christ's light with others, Pope tells Iraqi Catholic youth (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV called upon young Iraqi Catholics to share the light of Christ with others.

Transalpine Redemptorists are distinct from Redemptorists, superior general clarifies (Scala News)

The superior general of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori, clarified that the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as the Transalpine Redemptorists, are not part of the Redemptorist order.

Father Rogério Gomes, C.Ss.R., issued his statement prior to the scheduled illicit episcopal consecration of a Transalpine Redemptorist priest.

The Transalpine Redemptorists, a traditionalist community founded in 1988, reconciled with the Holy See in 2008 but adopted a sedevacantist position in May. Father Michael Mary is scheduled to be ordained a bishop on July 25 by Bishop Pierre Roy, a former priest of the Society of Saint Pius X who traces his episcopal lineage to a bishop ordained by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục.

Vatican diplomat: Prioritize poverty eradication and enact pro-family policies (Holy See Mission)

Addressing a United Nations forum today, a Vatican diplomat called upon the international community to “prioritize the eradication of poverty” and enact pro-family policies.

“The Holy See also wishes to emphasize the vital role of the family as the fundamental unity of society, a ‘primary social good,’ and a crucial source of resilience,” said Msgr. Marco Formica, interim chargé d’affaires of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. “Policies that strengthen families contribute directly to poverty eradication, social stability and the integral development.”

Pope appoints Diocese of Rome's 1st moderator of the curia (Vatican Press Office)

Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Pier Luigi Stolfi as the Diocese of Rome’s first moderator of the curia.

Father Stolfi, born in 1970 and ordained in 1996, is now parish priest of San Lino, a parish with weekly Eucharistic adoration. Confessions are scheduled at the parish for over four hours each weekday, as well as during every Sunday Mass.

The July 7 appointment followed the creation of the position in a June 24 apostolic letter. Article 19 of Confirma Fratres Tuos provides that the moderator of the curia, appointed upon the recommendation of the cardinal vicar for a five-year term, coordinates the activities of the diocesan curia.

Israeli settlers' outpost threatens Palestinian Christian village, West Bank priest warns (Vatican News)

A priest in Taybeh, a Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank, warned of the threat posed by the illegal construction of an Israeli settlers’ outpost.

Over the past year, settlers have repeatedly attacked Taybeh. Amid the reported beginning of the outpost’s construction, Father Bashar Fawadleh warned that Christian families “fear living under constant intimidation, while farmers worry they may no longer be able to reach their fields and poultry farms in the eastern part of the village,” according to Vatican News.

“The Holy Land cannot be preserved through words alone,” he said. “It must be protected through concrete action ... Do not wait until yet another irreversible reality is imposed. The time to act is now.”

Holy See is open to dialogue on AI, papal message emphasizes (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV assured participants in the AI for Good Global Summit of the Holy See’s openness to dialogue on artificial intelligence.