Headlines for March 27, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Russian Orthodox repudiate Fiducia Supplicans
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ speaks on Ukraine, Gaza
 Pope, at audience, speaks on patience
 Ukrainian Catholic churches sealed off in Donetsk
 French Catholic dioceses report jump in adult baptisms
 Pope greets Israeli, Palestinian fathers who mourn children together
 Papal message of solidarity to Catholics in Holy Land
 Pope writes meditations for Via Crucis at Colosseum, Vatican says
 Supreme Court hears abortion-drug case
 Rising violence against Christians in India
 Belgian church with lay-led liturgies loses parish status
 Amid lawsuits, nation’s first state-funded Catholic school opens applications
 UK group asks inquiry into lockdown effects on religion
 Nigerian prelate implores government to increase security
 Usher accused of embezzling from large Charlotte parish
 Church in Latin America marks ‘World Day of Hope,’ in commemoration of Pope’s pandemic prayer
 UN criticizes Cuba’s imprisonment of pastor
 Vatican cardinal, Polish president mark 80th anniversary of Ulma family’s martyrdom

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Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641). St. Jane was a married woman and a mother of seven children from Dijon, France. Her husband was killed in a hunting accident. In 1604, upon being deeply moved by the preaching of Francis de Sales, Jane asked him to become her…

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