Pope Leo meets with the participants in the conference “Mysticism, Mystical Phenomena, and Holiness,” organized by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and emphasizes the importance of evaluating carefully candidates for sainthood, especially those who have experienced mystical phenomena.

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Pope Leo XIV meets with cloistered Augustinian religious and encourages them to live in joy and communion with Christ, while embracing humble charity toward one another.

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Madeleine Wörner from Germany emphasises the importance of transitioning to green, ecological systems but highlights that this must be done in a just way, putting the people first and ensuring that nobody is left behind.

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On the sidelines of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, hospital boats are docked on the riverside, offering medical assistance to those most in need. The boats, inspired by Pope Francis, travel all along the Amazon River to tend to the needs to Indigenous communities and those who live along the river, far from cities. This is the testimony of Felipe, a volunteer doctor.

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Pope Leo XIV warns that young people and children could easily be manipulated by artificial intelligence and insists that 'safeguarding minors' dignity cannot be reduced to policies' and requires 'digital education' when addressing participants in the “The Dignity of Children and Adolescents in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Conference on Thursday in the Vatican.

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“AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity" was the title of a conference bringing together medical professionals, philosophers and theologians in Rome this week.

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The Bishops of India are calling for peace and vigilance in the wake of a terrorist attack in New Delhi on Monday that resulted in the deaths of eight people.

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On a five-day pastoral visit to Bangladesh, Cardinal Michael Czerny visits Cox’s Bazar, which houses more than one million people, mostly Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

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Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City says he is 'humbled' by his election as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asking for prayers that he may be 'a faithful steward and a wise servant of unity and communion with our Holy Father, Pope Leo, and with my brother Bishops and priests.'

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In a message to an international conference in Rome, Cardinal Pietro Parolin warns that humanity risks “its own extinction” if artificial life forms fail to respect human dignity, and he calls for interdisciplinary and multicultural cooperation to guide technology toward true human progress.

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