Headlines for April 23, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Be like fathers to children on the margins, Pope tells Brothers of Christian Instruction
 Vatican hopes to extend secret deal with China
 Cardinal Grech: Fiducia has ‘nothing to do’ with October Synod meeting
 Pope to speak at UN in September?
 ‘Vote for climate, vote for our future,’ front-page Vatican newspaper image urges
 Irish archbishop paints grim picture of drop in vocations
 Bolivian bishop’s home raided; prosecutor sees financial misconduct
 Kennedy campaign proposes day-care subsidy to counter abortion
 Record Catholic representation in Korean parliament
 A year after resignation, Bishop Stika sends ‘threatening and intimidating’ messages to priests
 USCCB committee chairman asks US government to be like Simon of Cyrene in South Sudan
 ‘The caress and the smile’: 6,000 grandparents, grandchildren to gather with Pope Francis
 Papal nuncio to US warns of ‘auto-referential’ Church
 Vatican foreign minister concludes visit to Vietnam
 Candace Owens becomes a Catholic
 Connecticut archbishop on transgenderism: ‘Biology is biology’
 President Biden issues Passover statement

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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