Headlines for March 25, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 All Catholic churches closed in England and Wales
 Vatican approves new options for Extraordinary Form
 Pope leads worldwide prayer for protection
 New Vatican directives for Easter Triduum without congregations
 Pope, in new video, calls for prayer to end pandemic
 Pope offers Mass for those who have died while serving the sick
 Connecticut archdiocese: no public Masses through April 30
 Kerala priest arrested after celebrating funeral Mass
 Irish bishops consecrate country to Mary’s Immaculate Heart
 Russian Orthodox patriarch approves liturgical prayers against coronavirus
 Vatican’s daily paper suspends print edition
 World Council of Churches, Anglican leader welcome Pope’s call to pray the Lord’s Prayer together
 Abortion halt brings death toll down despite epidemic in Texas, Ohio
 Egyptian court calls for annulment of monk’s death sentence
 Bells of all French churches to toll for 10 minutes
 3 Brooklyn priests contract COVID-19
 Epidemic leads Coptic Orthodox patriarch to offer public daily reflection
 COVID-19 claims its first Polish priest
 USCCB committee chairman recalls St. John Paul’s encyclical on human life

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Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop and Doctor

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Hilary of Poitiers (310-367). Hilary was one of the great champions of the Catholic belief in the divinity of Christ. By his preaching, his treatise on the Trinity, his part in the Councils, his daring opposition to the Emperor Constantius, he showed…

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