Vatican
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Trump raises voice; Vatican lowers heat
One year into his pontificate, Leo XIV has moved beyond cautious silence. During Rubio’s visit, the Vatican deployed no sanctions or threats — the pope used the vocabulary of peace and compelled the American delegation to echo it. Prevost has emerged as a moral voice insisting that moral authority still commands a hearing.
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The report Rome buried — and couldn’t keep secret
In 1976, a Vatican commission quietly reached a landmark conclusion on women’s ordination — and Rome quietly buried it. Fifty years later, that suppressed finding is back in focus, raising hard questions about authority, transparency, and what the Church’s own scholars actually said.
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