Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

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(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

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The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

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