In the city of Venice itself, there were 714 priests in 1969, shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council. According to the most recent county, which dates from 2022, the total now stands at 266.
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The pope’s participation will mark the first time a pontiff has taken part in a G7 summit, which has been meeting on a regular basis since 1975 and is considered the most important annual gathering of the leaders of the major Western powers.
Pope to take part in G7 summit in June to talk Artificial Intelligence
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As the central African nation of Gabon attempts to build a new future in the wake of a military coup last August, the centrality of religious faith in African cultures is reflected in the fact that the public face of the project is a Catholic priest.
Catholic priest is public face of Gabon’s post-coup future
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Amid an ongoing back and forth between the Vatican and the German bishops over a controversial new ecclesial body, four of the nation’s prelates have refused to participate in the planning process, opting instead to wait for direction from Rome.
Four German bishops opt out of contested ‘Synodal Council’
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Mexico's Episcopal Conference released a statement on Apr. 24 criticizing the “culture of death and violence” connected to drug cartels and disseminated on social media, including the “distorted cults like the one to Santa Muerte (Saint Death).
Mexican Church criticizes Santa Muerte T-shirt supporting President López Obrador
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In a pastoral letter addressed to all Scottish Catholics, the bishops of Scotland has called for people to urge the country’s parliament to reject proposed legislation legalizing assisted suicide.
Scottish bishops say assisted suicide bill ‘takes us down a dangerous spiral’
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Christian leaders in Britain have asked the UK Government to formally recognize the deaths of Armenians during World War I as a “genocide.”
Christian leaders call on UK government to recognize Armenian Genocide
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Despite its natural wealth of Congo-Brazzaville, a leading Catholic charity official says the people are very poor, “not only financially, but morally, too.”
Catholic charity says Congo-Brazzaville is poor ‘not only financially, but morally, too’
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In response to the growing number of Hispanic Catholics in the United States, St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore will soon offer a specialized track where a seminarian will focus the last four years of their priestly education on Hispanic ministry.
St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore to offer specialized Hispanic ministry track
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Two of the three independent abuse commissioners of the Catholic Diocese of Augsburg are resigning on April 30, according to the Augsburger Allgemeine.
Members of abuse commission in German diocese resign, citing lack of transparency
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