Headlines for March 17, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 USCCB president criticizes Germany’s Synodal Way
 New app allows China to track religious worshippers
 Irish primate: St. Patrick reflects priorities of Pope Francis
 Trial testimony: Pope sought quick exit from troubled London deal
 New papal decree for administration of Dicastery for Evangelization
 Polish bishops defend St. John Paul II, form independent commission to investigate ‘full picture’ of archives
 USCCB opposes Biden administration’s steep fee increase for religious worker visas
 Pope urges religious to uphold ‘the primacy of God’s love’
 Online canon-law resource set back by copyright dispute
 Michigan adds LGBTQ protections to anti-discrimination law
 North Dakota Supreme Court blocks state pro-life law
 Hesse’s leader discusses Ukraine, Synodal Way with Pontiff
 2 Saskatoon Catholic schools vandalized
 Former Wyoming Catholic College CFO liable for over $17M
 Oakland diocese ‘giving strong consideration’ to bankruptcy
 Utah governor signs bill banning all abortion clinics
 Cardinal Dolan discusses Catholic revival in the Bronx
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to Malawi, ‘a devastated country’

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Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Our Lady of Lourdes

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes today, marking the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to…

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