Headlines for March 13, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Women’s ordination, transgender ideology move forward at German Synodal Way
 Nicaragua suspends Vatican ties after Pope says Ortega regime recalls Nazis, Communists
 In new interviews, Pope Francis discusses celibacy, war, and his 10 years
 Pope Francis: Gender ideology is ‘one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations’ today
 Polish bishops: New allegation that JPII covered up sex abuse based on reports from Communist secret police
 British chaplain dismissed for answering questions on Christian marriage
 Feminists vandalize at least 5 Latin American cathedrals, basilicas on International Women’s Day
 Santa Rosa diocese to file for bankruptcy in wake of nearly 200 sex abuse suits
 Cardinal Czerny calls on universities to become incubators of radical ecological action
 Chile sees another arson attack on a church
 Moscow Patriarch appeals to Pope to help stop eviction of monks from Ukraine
 Catholic parish burglarized in Connecticut; hate speech painted on floor and wall
 Virginia judge: treat frozen embryos as ‘goods or chattels’
 Spanish bishop bars EWTN

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Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the…

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