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Vatican designates Philippine Padre Pio shine as an international shrine
June 06, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: In a May 25 decree, the Dicastery for Evangelization designated the Padre Pio Shrine in Batangas, Philippines, an international shrine.
Praedicate Evangelium, the 2022 apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia, grants the dicastery’s Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World the authority to designate international shrines (Article 56).
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