Headlines for March 03, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Build new order to address today’s ‘polycrisis,’ Pope urges
 Pope stable, treatment continues [Thursday PM update]
 Sight and taste: papal Angelus reflection on Gospel reading
 Pope reflects on frailty, thanks faithful for prayers, prays for peace
 Hispanics in US less likely to be Catholics
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ prods UN body on human rights
 USCCB committee chairman, other Catholic leaders urge Congress to protect Medicaid
 British bishop raps foreign-aid cuts, arms spending
 Canadian house speaker meets with leading Ukrainian Catholic bishops, affirms support
 Theme, date chosen for 111th World Day of Migrants
 Zimbabwe’s bishops welcome abolition of death penalty
 Cardinal De Donatis to take Pope’s place at Ash Wednesday procession, Mass
 Lithuanian president meets Vatican Secretary of State
 NYPD chaplain arrested for patronizing prostitute, denies charges
 Iowa enacts law removing ‘gender identity’ as protected class
 Fátima statue to visit Rome for Jubilee of Marian Spirituality

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Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Sts. Sixtus II, Pope; and Companions, Martyrs; St. Cajetan, Priest

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Today is the Optional Memorial of Sts. Sixtus II and his companions (d. 258). Pope Sixtus II was one of the first victims of the persecution under the Emperor Valerian. Felicissimus and Agapitus were two of his deacons who were executed with him. Sixtus governed the Church from 256 to 258. His name is…

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