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3 days ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |Nick Olszyk
UMary launches world’s first Catholic Montessori institute By Kate Quiñones for CNA Cassandra Baker, now a coordinator for the Catholic Montessori Institute, presents a math lesson introducing the decimal system to a 4-year-old student in spring 2023 at the Christ the King Catholic Montessori Grade School in Mandan, North Dakota. / Credit: Mike McCleary/University of MaryCNA Staff, Jun 24, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
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catholicworldreport.com | Joan Bauer |Nick Olszyk
From the Iconic to the IdolatrousSpare Us Yet and Other Stories by Lucas Smith (Wiseblood Books, 2025) strikes me as a prayer, not for the dead, but for the living. (Image: Wiseblood Books / www.wisebloodbooks.com)In his debut collection of stories, Lucas Smith depicts people of faith under challenging circumstances ranging from the historical to the contemporary and futuristic.
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catholicworldreport.com | Victoria Isabel Cardiel |Nick Olszyk
Pope Leo XIV on AI: ‘All of us are concerned for children and young people’ By Victoria Cardiel for CNA null / Credit: LookerStudio/ShutterstockVatican City, Jun 20, 2025 / 18:46 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has issued a fresh warning about the negative effects that artificial intelligence (AI) can have on the “intellectual and neurological development” of rising generations, along with a call to confront the “loss of the sense of the human” that societies are experiencing.
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catholicworldreport.com | Amira Abuzeid |Nick Olszyk
Auction for the sale of pope’s childhood home extended By Amira Abuzeid for CNA The childhood home of Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, in Dolton, Illinois. / Credit: Michael Howie, Attribution, via Wikimedia CommonsCNA Staff, Jun 20, 2025 / 14:41 pm (CNA). The auction for the childhood home of Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been extended by a month and will now close on July 17, according to the auction house selling the home.
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2 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Nick Olszyk
Pope Leo XIV meets with priests of Rome in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Thursday, June 12, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 12, 2025 / 09:22 am (CNA). The priests of Rome met for the first time on Thursday with their new bishop, Pope Leo XIV, to whom they are looking for greater leadership and fatherly care after several years of administrative disruption.
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2 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Nick Olszyk
Why we need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s own wordsPope Leo has already, in the first few weeks of his pontificate, pointed to a few ways the Western lung can find inspiration for its Eastern counterpart. Pope Leo XIV gives the homily at Mass with the cardinale electors in the Sistine Chapel on May 9, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media)In the first week of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV spoke these words to members of the Eastern Catholic Churches gathered in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee.
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3 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tessa Gervasini |Nick Olszyk
Toronto Cardinal Leo tells Catholics to avoid using ‘symbols that do not represent us’ By Tessa Gervasini for CNA Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 2, 2025 / 18:07 pm (CNA).
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3 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Nick Olszyk
The Fountain of Youth offers shallow fun and a trickle of truthThis new film by British action director Guy Richie has plenty of summer movie action, but is derivative and often lazy. (Image: Wikipedia)MPAA Rating: PG-13Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels(The following review contains spoilers!)The Fountain of Youth is one of the great mythological quests: a mysterious spring that gives immortality.
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3 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Kristina Millare |Nick Olszyk
Vatican City, Aug 24, 2017 / 12:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday Pope Francis told a group of Italian liturgists that while the process of implementing the liturgical reform following Vatican II has been a long and at times bumpy task, the reform is “irreversible.”“After this magisterium, after this long journey we can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible,” the Pope said Aug.
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4 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Nick Olszyk
Vatican City, Aug 26, 2018 / 07:05 pm (CNA).- Please read below for CNA’s full transcript of the Pope’s Aug. 26 in-flight press conference from Dublin to Rome: Greg Burke: Holy Father, thanks for this time you’re dedicating to us after two intense days. Certainly, there were difficult moments.
