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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Young people must take control of technology and “humanize” online spaces to be friendly, creative places — not isolated echo chambers, forms of addiction or ways to escape, Pope Leo XIV said. “Instead of being tourists on the web, be prophets in the digital world!” he told thousands of students gathered…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Marking 80 years since some 4,400 Allied troops “heroically gave their lives” to the cause of freedom by storming the beach in Normandy, D-Day commemorations remind the world that disrupting peace in pursuit of worldly interests is a grave sin, Pope Francis said. To pursue “ideological, nationalistic or economic ambitions” at…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In the Hebrew Scriptures, God commanded his people to observe a jubilee as a time to restore their relationships with God, with other people and with the land. Especially since St. John Paul II proclaimed the Holy Year 2000, part of the Catholic Church’s jubilee efforts to repair those relationships has…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis announced that he is preparing a document on the Sacred Heart of Jesus to “illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal, but also to say something significant to a world that seems to have lost its heart.” The document is expected to be released in September, he said, and will…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics will not positively influence fiscal policy unless they also develop an intricate knowledge of the financial system’s weaknesses and flaws, Pope Francis said. For Catholic social teaching to become a “compass” for financial structures and policy, he said, “it is necessary not to stop at exhortations but to be able…

WASHINGTON – “We are deeply disturbed by this disregard for fundamental humanitarian protections and U.S. asylum law,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso today after President Biden issued a proclamation restricting access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The action relies on provisions in federal immigration law that were enacted prior to the…