Headlines for February 26, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican: do not publish lists of ‘credibly accused’ clerics
 Papal condition update
 Pope sets up new Vatican fundraising panel
 Pope’s text, planned for audience, speaks of Presentation
 Church leaders issue joint plea for global debt relief
 Decline in US Christian population slowing?
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ renews call for debt relief, abolition of death penalty
 Holy See again calls for cessation of hostilities in Ukraine
 Armed attackers beat missionaries in Mozambique
 Hindu nationalist influencer in India calls for attacks on Christians on March 1
 Ukrainian Orthodox priest sent to Russian labor camp
 At outdoor Mass for Pope, Buenos Aires archbishop rues ‘lies and slander’ against Pontiff
 ‘Little by little, hope is being reborn’ in Central African Republic amid civil war, bishops say
 ‘We are grateful that we are still alive’: faithful in Bukavu give thanks
 USCCB publishes ‘Life Matters: Reproductive Technologies’
 Cardinal Tagle leads Rosary for Pope’s recovery

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Thu26 March
Lent

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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The weekday Masses towards the end of Lent are like a Passion Play. The Gospels, as one scene after the other, show the mounting hatred and growing tension. This is the “Abraham Mass,” telling of the inheritance received through Abraham. The Opening Prayer reminds us of our great inheritance received from Christ.…

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