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Vice President Vance: ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Is ‘Profound’

Vice President JD Vance commented on the Pope’s encyclical, NBC News reported on May 26, 2026.

‘The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?’ Vance told NBC News.

‘A Hopeful Document’: Catholic Thinkers on AI Assess ‘Magnifica Humanitas’

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Pope Leo XIV speaks during the presentation of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, 2026, in the Synod Hall of the Vatican.

Experts praised Pope Leo’s encyclical both for its broader articulation of the proper relationship between humanity and technology, as well for its evaluation of AI using Catholic social principles such as subsidiarity, solidarity and the common good.

Priest Charged With Theft of $160,000 From Kansas Parish

Arrest records show that Father Storey was booked on May 23 and posted $250,000 bond.

Father Richard Storey turned himself in after being charged with theft from a Kansas City, Kansas, parish, according to the Archdiocese of Kansas City.

Pope Decries ‘Drastic Sterility,’ Discrimination Against Motherhood in Europe

Pope Leo XIV speaks to members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography during an audience on May 25, 2026, at the Vatican. The pope told the group that the key to solving demographic issues is “the fundamental dignity of all persons” and the role of the family in society.

Pope Leo addressed members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography and others during a conference on the family and demographics.

Pedro Ballester’s Sainthood Cause Advances After Life of Faith and Suffering

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Pedro Ballester was “always happy and thinking of others even in the midst of terrible suffering,” according to Jack Valero from Opus Dei, who is helping to promote Ballester’s cause for sainthood.

The Diocese of Salford announced that a young adult from England who died at 21 of cancer is on the way to possibly being named a saint.

From the Vatican to Australia: Sistine Chapel Exhibit Debuts in Sydney

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A banner of the exhibit “Sistine Chapel Revelations: An Immersive Exhibition” is displayed at the Palazzo Cardinal Cesi on May 22, 2026, in Rome. | Credit: Ishmael Adibuah/EWTN News

The Vatican Museums and the Archdiocese of Sydney held a conference in Rome to launch the exhibition ahead of the 2028 International Eucharistic Congress.