Headlines for March 07, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican spokesman decries EU military aid for Ukraine
 Chinese bishop arrested for celebrating Jubilee Mass
 Nigerian bishops lament state government orders to close Christian schools during Ramadan
 New NIH director promises end to fetal-tissue research
 Vatican message for Ramadan invites Muslims to ‘walk side-by-side’
 Rabbi meets with Cardinal Parolin, calls on Vatican to describe Israel as Jews’ ‘eternal homeland’
 Ukrainian Catholic leader: ‘No peace treaty can be signed without truth and justice’
 New Jersey court allows statewide probe of clerical abuse
 Priests of Rome asked to donate to housing program
 Kenyan bishop leery of politicians’ gifts to churches
 25,000 pilgrims gather for Jubilee of Volunteers
 White House arranges Ash Wednesday Mass for Catholic staff
 Over 2,300 Polish nuns helped save Jews during Holocaust
 Donate to Catholic Relief Services to help the world’s poor, USCCB committee chairman writes
 President Trump issues Ramadan message

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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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