Headlines for February 20, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Cardinal Schönborn to German bishops: Maintain unity with Rome
 Priests under increased surveillance in Nicaragua; Ortega regime reportedly approving diocesan appointments
 Cardinal Zen renews criticism of Fiducia Supplicans
 Haitian bishop hurt in house explosion
 Papal envoy calls for ceasefire in Gaza
 Oregon bishop: no blessings for same-sex couples
 Retiring Vatican archivist publishes book, criticizes Pius XII’s sainthood cause
 Long after Pope’s abuse summit, victims still traumatized by the system meant to address their cases
 In US, almost all Catholic women’s colleges admit men who identify as women
 Alabama Supreme Court: Wrongful death law covers destruction of frozen embryos
 European bishops announce Lenten initiative for peace, Synod
 Vatican commissions street artist to illustrate Pope’s Lenten message
 ‘Deadly desert’: Vatican newspaper draws attention to plight of migrants in Niger

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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