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		<title>Cardinal Stephen Brislin Reflects on the Historic Election of Pope Leo One Year Later</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A year after the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Stephen Brislin still speaks about the experience with awe, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why No Pope Peter II?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Question: The recent papal election made me wonder: Why has no pope ever taken the name Peter II? Answer: There [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>10 things to know about Vatican II</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On December 8, 1965, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Paul VI closed an extraordinary gathering of bishops, theologians [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Wooden, CNS &#8211; For the world&#8217;s 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fr Peter-John Pearson: Where SA and Vatican Stand Together</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the COP30 meeting in Belém, Brazil, in November, the Vatican and South Africa presented a strikingly aligned message: climate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vatican Publishes Summary of 60 Years of Catholic-Methodist Dialogue</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By CNS &#8211; Celebrating almost six decades of Catholic-Methodist theological dialogue, the Vatican publishing house has released a book summarising [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Papal commission votes against ordaining women deacons</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Carol Glatz, CNS &#8211; A commission set up by Pope Francis to study women deacons has voted against the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ramaphosa Invites Pope Leo to Visit SA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a renewal of the human  spirit rooted in solidarity, justice and compassion during a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vatican: Mary, Mother of Jesus, is Not Co-Redeemer</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Wooden, CNS &#8211; While praising devotion to Mary, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith firmly rejected [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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