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Opinion – Beyond Neo-Ottomanism in Turkey’s Syria Strategy
When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fell in late 2024 analysts quickly revived old tropes about Turkish Neo-Ottomanism. But these labels do not reflect reality: Turkey is not pursuing the restoration of a Neo-Ottoman Empire, it is acting on...

Leo expected to appoint new PCPM president - Who will it be?
In his first major Vatican appointment, Pope Leo XIV is expected to appoint soon a new president for the papal global safeguarding commission. Cardinal Sean O’Malley and members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. Credit:...

Pope enjoys first day of R&R at Castel Gandolfo
Pope Leo XIV on Monday enjoyed his first day of rest and relaxation at Caste Gandolo, the hill town south of Rome that is the traditional papal summer cool getaway from the Roman heat but which was closed and turned into a museum by his...

Long after the fuss over Pope Leo XIV, the village of Dolton will still be here
The village of Dolton, which is where you may find yourself if you’re traveling south through Chicago and run out of Chicago to travel through, which we have heard more about in the past 30 days or so than since it was established 130-odd years...

Alliance Of Climate Civil Society Organisations Rally In Seville For Global Levies To Make Polluters Pay
30 June, Seville, Spain —A global coalition of civil society leaders, including Global Citizen, the Glasgow Action Team and Greenpeace International, have rallied this morning outside the FIBES Conference Center in Seville, where world leaders...

Best of Glasgow: 25 favourite Glasgow buildings that represent the city
There are fixed points within Glasgow, buildings that stand in place to define the city and tell the story of its people. Our built heritage deserves more care and attention. Glasgow is in danger of succumbing to the featureless onslaught of...

'Always Go Easy with People' - The Life and Ministry of Monsignor Pat Lynch
Monsignor Pat Lynch celebrated his golden jubilee in the Star of the Sea Church in Desertegney last month, marking 50 years in a priesthood that took him from St Kieran’s Seminary in Kilkenny, to a high security prison in England and the hallowed...

Transforming Saint Peter’s Basilica Into a ‘Zero-Impact Home’
Reducing emissions, monitoring air quality, and cultivating care for our common home are the principles at the foundation of the environmental sustainability project of the Fabric of St Peter’s, the institution responsible for the conservation and...

Pope Leo visits Castel Gandolfo ahead of his summer holiday
Pope Leo XIV makes a brief visit to the town of Castel Gandolfo to inspect the works in progress at the Papal residence, where he will spend his summer holiday starting on Sunday, July 6. By Vatican News On Thursday afternoon, July 3, Pope Leo XIV...
Texas flood death toll nears 90 with girl campers still missing
Crews picked through mountains of debris and waded into swollen rivers overnight in the search for victims of catastrophic flooding that killed nearly 90 people over the weekend in Texas, including more than two dozen campers and counsellors from...

Camp Mystic ‘grieving the loss' of campers and counselors following catastrophic Texas floods
Camp Mystic says it is “grieving the loss” of campers and counselors as the search continued Monday for victims of catastrophic Texas flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Twenty-seven campers and counselors remain missing or are among...

Texas summer camp ‘grieving the loss’ of 27 campers and counsellors following catastrophic floods
KERRVILLE, Texas -- Camp Mystic says it is “grieving the loss” of 27 campers and counselors as the search continued Monday for victims of catastrophic Texas flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The statement adds another layer of...

Paris Scene: What’s Hot
Paris is hopping with new boutiques, restaurants and exhibitions. Here’s a curation of those for this couture season. Where to Shop Rubirosa’s, the latest project by Paris-based jewelry designer Lauren Rubinski, isn’t about gold and gemstones. Her...

Geoffrey Proud
Geoffrey Proud passed on to his eternal reward Friday, July 4, 2025. He was 92 years old. Born Oct. 17, 1932 as Kenneth Richard Proud in Rochester, N.Y., he was the first child of Kenneth R. Proud of Oswego, N.Y., and Martha Jane Wilber of...

Pope Leo extends condolences to Texas flood victims: ‘We pray for them’
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday voiced his sympathies for the families whose lives have been upended by the flooding in Texas’s Hill Country, which left about 80 dead – many of them children – and others missing. After reciting Angelus prayers at the...

‘Life is Only Better with Jesus In It’
By Grace Lathrop Jonathan Roumie, along with other members of the team of “The Chosen,” presented Pope Leo XIV with a wooden box on Wednesday morning, 25 June. Having just attended his weekly General Audience, the cast and production team of the...

Spanish diocese in litigation against Opus Dei makes public its proposal to the Pope for Torreciudad; Opus Dei speaks out
(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.03.2025).- On July 1, the Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón announced a formal request to the Holy See for Torreciudad, currently designated a semi-public oratory, to be canonically erected as an international sanctuary—under the...

Camp Mystic ‘Grieving The Loss’ Of 27 Campers, Counselors After Catastrophic Texas Floods
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Camp Mystic says it is “grieving the loss” the loss of 27 campers and counselors as the search continued Monday for victims of catastrophic Texas flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The statement adds another...

Pope Leo XIV appoints new archbishop to lead Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama
Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 13:47 pm Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Mark Rivituso, auxiliary of St. Louis, as metropolitan archbishop of Mobile, Alabama. Rivituso succeeds Archbishop Thomas Rodi, who led the Archdiocese of Mobile beginning in...

Texas Flash Flood Death Toll Rises Past 80, Dozens Still Missing
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — With more rain on the way, the risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday even as crews search urgently for the missing following a holiday weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people,...