Headlines for March 09, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Washington Post rips lay Catholic group for divulging priests’ online habits
 Pope thanks women, condemns violence against women
 German synodal way considers same-sex blessings, ordination of the transgendered
 Papal preface to book on women’s leadership
 Pope Francis meets with two Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram
 Pope reflects on industrial accidents
 Pope meets with Christian-Muslim dialogue group
 Cardinal McElroy contradicts Pope Francis on Eucharistic coherence, Bishop Paprocki says
 Hong Kong’s bishop to visit Beijing
 Polish PM defends John Paul II after report he knew of abuse
 Volatile political climate keeping Pope from visit to Argentine homeland?
 Vatican opens prosecution of museum vandals
 US prelates urge Catholics to ‘intensify’ prayers for Ukraine
 Priests give fragment of shipwrecked migrant boat to Pope
 Ten ‘consequential characters’ help define a decade of Pope Francis’ leadership
 Boston prelate grateful for reappointment to Pope’s advisory Council of Cardinals

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Lent

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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It is one week before Good Friday. Today's Mass is a further reminder of how hatred against Christ escalated in those final days before Holy Week. Fridays of Lent have a special penitential quality. —The Vatican II Weekday Missal The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Rupert (d.…

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