Headlines for March 06, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope issues audio message of thanks for prayers
 Cardinal Fernandez: weigh ‘exceptional circumstances’ for sex-change treatment
 Pope stable, treatment continues [Thursday PM update]
 Cardinal Roche: Traditionalists are ‘quite clamorous’ small minority
 Fragility and hope: papal homily for Ash Wednesday Mass
 Nigeria most dangerous country for Christians
 Immigrants form growing proportion of US Catholics
 Baltimore archdiocese lowering age for confirmation
 Pope’s message to Church in Brazil links conversion, integral ecology
 Federal court restores funding to institutions that offer ‘gender-affirming care’
 Foreign-born nuns face problems as US visa program expires
 Cambodian prelate opposes Thai border wall
 Parish center hit in Myanmar bombing raid
 Mongolian president praised Pope’s peace efforts
 Pope, in video, encourages forgiveness to heal family wounds
 Hospitalized Pope still not delegating decisions, journalist notes

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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation. On November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption. Thus he solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the close of her earthly life, was taken up,…

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