Headlines for March 18, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Lourdes shrine closes for the first time in its history
 147 US dioceses have suspended all public Masses
 Pope, in newspaper interview, encourages families to show concrete gestures of love
 Pope Francis prays for the elderly, preaches on forgiveness
 Forgive others to be forgiven, Pope says at audience
 Pontifical academy preparing document on ‘Coronavirus and Human Fraternity’
 Public Masses suspended in Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay
 Italian bishop survives coronavirus, returns from hospital
 Canada’s psychiatrists: Refusing euthanasia for mentally ill is ‘discrimination’
 Leading Polish prelate calls for common nightly Rosary
 Congolese priest survives machete attack
 Leading Methodist ecumenist dies at 81
 7 coronavirus cases confirmed in 2 Queens parishes
 Vatican official: ‘We are going through the dark night of the soul’
 Maronite Patriarch weighs in on Lebanon’s economic crisis

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Friday of the Third Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr (1577-1622). Fidelis was born at Sigmaringen in Swabia in 1577. He practiced at first as a lawyer and so took to heart the cause of the needy that he was known as the poor man's lawyer. Then he joined the Capuchin Friars Minor…

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