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The Vatican has announced the most far-reaching overhaul of its internal administration in a quarter of a century, with Pope Leo XIV approving two major regulatory texts that will reshape daily life inside the Holy See. Signed on the Feast of Christ the King and published on 24 November, the new Regulation of the Roman Curia...

When Heather Vreeman’s husband called her from Greenville, South Carolina, where he was interviewing for a job, she was eager to hear what he thought of the area. “I think you are going to love it, and I think I found our church,” he told her. That church, St. Mary’s in downtown Greenville, wasn’t the reason they moved from San Diego...

Pope Leo XIV called for renewed commitment to ecumenism among Christian denominations on Sunday, urging all Christians and their leaders to deepen their communion in the commonly confessed tenets of the faith. In an apostolic letter released ahead of a papal trip to Nicea — during which Leo will join the Patriarch of Constantinople to mark the 1700th anniversary of the ecumenical council...

The Holy See Press Office Director, Matteo Bruni, has presented Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic journey, which will take him to Ankara, Istanbul, and Beirut, with a significant stop in İznik, ancient Nicaea, for the 1700th anniversary of the Council. The pilgrimage carries a strong ecumenical character and places interreligious dialogue at its center...

In the unity of faith, proclaimed since the beginning of the Church, Christians have been called to walk in harmony, guarding and transmitting the gift they have received with love and joy. This is expressed in the words of the Creed, “I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God... for our salvation he came down from heaven,” that were formulated 1700 years ago by the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical gathering in the history of Christianity.

Ahead of his upcoming Apostolic Journey to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV issued on Sunday, 23 November, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the Apostolic Letter 'In unitate fidei' on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. The full Letter, which has the hope of "encouraging the whole Church to renew her enthusiasm for the profession of faith," is broken down into twelve points...

More than 300 children and staff are now thought to have been kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, making it one of the worst mass abductions the country has seen.The Christian Association of Nigeria said 303 students and 12 teachers were taken from on St Mary's School in Papiri, Niger state - substantially more than previously estimated.

In a firm call to avoid “false mercy” in marriage annulment proceedings, Pope Leo XIV reminded that compassion cannot disregard the truth. During a Friday audience with participants in the legal-pastoral training course of the Roman Rota, the Holy See’s court of appeals, the Holy Father read a lengthy speech in which he recalled the importance of the reform of marriage annulment processes initiated by Pope Francis 10 years ago.

God created us, his beloved children, to “have dominion” over all things on earth, giving us every plant, every animal and every bird. We were to rule in his place in Paradise — and God saw his plan working and said it was “very good.” But then we blew it. We agreed with Satan that God is a tyrant and took God’s kingdom, and we handed it over to his enemy...