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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦

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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦

@MLJHaynes

Vatican Correspondent – @CatholicHerald Editor @PerMariam Contributor @PelicanCatholic Also ✍️ @UnaVoceOfficial, @AmericaTFP, @OnePeterFive, @EuroConOfficial

Vatican City

Joined June 2015

Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Sep 29, 2025
Scenes from the traditional Latin Mass for St. Michael’s feast, celebrated at St. Michael’s altar in the Vatican this morning.
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Feb 11, 2025
Border Czar @RealTomHoman rejects Pope Francis' immigration critique: "I’ve got harsh words for the Pope. Pope ought to fix the Catholic Church...He wants to attack us securing our border? He has a wall around the Vatican, does he not? So he has a wall to protect his people
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Feb 11, 2025
Pope Francis slated @realDonaldTrump' border policy But in Dec the Vatican quietly made a base penalty of betw 1-4yrs in jail & €10k - €25k fine for anyone illegally entering Vatican City state. Penalties increase if offender uses guns, vehicles, disguises, or is in a group
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
May 12, 2025
Pope Leo XIV gave the full apostolic blessing in Latin to an audience of journalists today At the same mtg in 2013, Pope Francis famously gave a silent blessing, saying --- “Given that many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church, & others are not believers, I give this
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Sep 24, 2025
NEW: Pope Leo today urged Catholics to pray the Rosary daily in October for peace. For this end, at 6pm on Oct 11 there will be a Rosary in St Peter’s Square, as part of the Marian spirituality Jubilee. He also asks Vatican employees to pray the Rosary in the basilica daily.
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Oct 25, 2025
NOW: Cardinal Burke celebrates historic traditional Mass in the Vatican. Thousands of Catholics presents overspilling the pews. Two more cardinals present with around 200 clergy
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Jun 14, 2025
NEW: Cardinal Burke says he has already spoken to Pope Leo XIV about future of Latin Mass. “It is my hope that he will put an end to the persecution of the faithful in the Church who desire to worship God according to more ancient usage of Roman rite, this persecution from
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Sep 13, 2025
Drones form the face of Pope Francis at the Vatican, while Andrea Bocelli & US rapper Jelly Roll sing Amazing Grace. Comes as part of tonight’s“Grace for the World” concert closing 3rd annual World Meeting on Human Fraternity, born from Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Oct 8, 2025
NEW: Cardinal Zen @CardJosephZen urges Catholics to join Bishop Schneider in making reparation for the recent LGBT Vatican Jubilee pilgrimage. The event “seriously insulted the Catholic faith & the dignity of St. Peter’s Basilica, which seriously offended God,” he writes.
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Nov 12, 2025
BREAKING: Bishop Strickland stands up in USCCB @USCCB mtg -- urges bishops to respond to Fr James Martin overseeing the confirmation & reception of Holy Communion by a 'married' gay man "We need to address this" No response from the panel/chair Background in comment below
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Sep 22, 2025
NEW: Pope Leo met w Cardinal Sarah today Sarah recently said that Fiducia Supplicans “threatens the unity of the Church. It is a document to be forgotten.” Has also strongly warned against Latin Mass restrictions. Banning the TLM “would be like forbidding the study of St.
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Apr 19, 2025
BREAKING: Reports emerging of Israeli police preventing Christians from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre today, beating them and drawing guns. The Vatican's Nuncio Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana was also reportedly denied entry. Video credit: Alasma News
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
May 25, 2025
Pope Leo XIV lays a wreath of flowers at the ancient image of the Salus Populi Romani in the Basilica of St Mary Major today. He then intones the Magnificat. He has now taken possession of all four papal basilicas in Rome
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Jun 4, 2025
JUST IN: Vatican @HolySeePress confirms Pope Leo spoke with President Putin by phone today. Full Vatican statement: “During the phone call, in addition to matters of mutual interest, special attention was paid to the situation in Ukraine and peace. The Pope made an appeal for
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Apr 26, 2025
Closing his homily Cardinal Re says Pope Francis is in Heaven: “Dear Pope Francis, we now ask you to pray for us. May you bless the Church, bless Rome, & bless the whole world from heaven as you did last Sunday from the balcony of this Basilica”
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Michael Haynes 🇻🇦
@MLJHaynes
Apr 26, 2025
Vatican says that some 200,000 people are attending Pope Francis’ funeral. Well over 130 foreign delegations present, with global figures such as @realDonaldTrump, @KensingtonRoyal, @EmmanuelMacron, @PM_ViktorOrban @LifeSite on site for coverage
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