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Health Vatican

Delegation’s visit brings together mission and innovation

A senior Vatican official and Samsung Health executives spent a week in Australia touring Catholic hospitals as part of a visit that brought together mission and innovation. Source: CHA.

Refugees Vatican

Cardinal visiting world’s largest refugee camp calls for more aid

Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Source: CNA.

Vatican

Vatican finds alleged apparitions of Jesus in France not supernatural

Jesus did not appear to a woman in Dozulé, France, in the 1970s and the messages she claimed to receive, including about Jesus’s second coming, are misleading and twist central Christian teachings, the Vatican has announced. Source: Catholic Review.

Interfaith Vatican

Cardinal says Vatican no place for Muslim prayer room 

The creation of a Muslim prayer room inside the Vatican has drawn the ire of a senior Vatican cardinal. Source: The Australian.

Africa Vatican

Vatican to issue new document addressing polygamy in Africa

The Vatican will issue a new document on marriage later this month, addressing the question of polygamy in Africa amid continuing pastoral and cultural debate. Source: The Catholic Herald.

Mary Vatican

Vatican rejects moves to proclaim Mary as co-redemeer

While praising devotion to Mary, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has firmly rejected moves to formally proclaim Mary as “co-redemptrix” or “co-mediatrix”. Source: CNS.

Liturgy Vatican

Traditional Latin Mass celebrated in St Peter’s Basilica

In the presence of hundreds of priests and with lay faithful packed into the pews and standing along the walls, Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated the traditional Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St Peter’s Basilica. Source: OSV News.

Ecology Vatican

Vatican plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28 per cent by 2035

The Vatican aims to eliminate more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions it produces over the next decade, according to plans it has submitted to the United Nations. Source: NCR Online.

Vatican

Cardinal presides over act of reparation after desecration of altar

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, St Peter’s Basilica archpriest and Vatican City State vicar general, presided over a penitential rite of reparation at the main altar of the church on Monday following a serious act of desecration that occurred on Friday. Source: CNA.