Headlines for January 17, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope to children: God gazes at us with eyes of love
 Faith is a call to service and mission, Pope tells US seminarians
 Dramatic charges, counter-charges at Vatican finance trial
 China’s population drops—with further decline in sight
 Papal condolences following plane crash in Nepal
 Syro-Malabar synod fails to resolve violent row over the Mass
 Cardinal Zen worried by Synod’s focus
 Bishop urges South Sudanese to ‘take advantage of papal visit to be reconciled’
 Friends and family pay their respects to Cardinal Pell
 Analysis: Pope Francis centralizes authority with reform of Diocese of Rome
 Priest abducted in Nigeria’s Ekiti State
 US Catholic-Lutheran dialogue participants discuss holy orders, ministry
 The story of the March for Life
 Islamist militants kidnap at least 50 women in Burkina Faso
 New Zealand bishops publish response to Synod’s continental stage document
 Background: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

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Memorial of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Agatha (d. 250), who died in defense of her purity, in Catania, Sicily. After Quintanus, the governor of Sicily, tried in vain to force her to consent to sin, she was imprisoned for a month with an evil woman. He then turned from sensuality to cruelty and had her…

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