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Consistory of cardinals to address synod, war and artificial intelligence
Several working sessions and four themes ranging from war to synodality are planned for the next consistory convened by Pope Leo XIV. Source: EWTN News.
New chief for Vatican communications department
Maria Montserrat Alvarado, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News, will become the first laywoman to lead a Vatican dicastery after Pope Leo XIV appointed her prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication. Source: EWTN News.
Youth mental health crisis needs structural responses: Cardinal
Describing the mental health crisis affecting young people as “an emergency requiring structural responses”, Cardinal Pietro Parolin warned that today’s society often offers young people “every means but no purpose”. Source: Vatican News.
SSPX pushes ahead with consecration of bishops
The Society of St Pius X announced the names of four priests to be consecrated as bishops on July 1 without the permission of Pope Leo XIV and despite warnings that it would be “a schismatic act”. Source: EWTN News.
Document to explore transmission of the faith
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has given further details of the upcoming Vatican document on the “transmission of the faith”, saying it will examine reasons for the failure to transmit the faith between generations and find ways of making preaching the Gospel attractive. Source: National Catholic Register.
SSPX warned against committing ‘schismatic act’
The planned consecration of new bishops by the traditionalist Society of St Pius X would be considered “a schismatic act,” the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office said yesterday Source: OSV News.
Vatican Bank’s profit jumps 55.5 per cent
The Vatican Bank closed 2025 with a net profit of 51 million euros ($A82.7m), an increase of 55.5 per cent over the 32.8 million euros ($53.2m) recorded the previous year. Source: National Catholic Register
Vatican ‘hoping to avoid’ sanctions against German bishops
The Vatican Secretary of State said it would be premature to discuss sanctions against the German bishops for blessings of same-sex couples. Source: EWTN News.
Synod proposes new approach to ‘people of faith with same-sex attractions’
The Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod published the testimonies of two men in civil marriages with other men who describe from personal experience the tensions and wounds that have marked their lives of faith within the Church. Source: EWTN News.