Headlines for April 24, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the life of grace
 Australian police arrest 7 in ‘religious extremist’ network
 Vatican preparing document on apparitions
 British bishops issue mild statement on gender theory
 Four German bishops opt out of ‘Synodal Council’
 Doctor who prepared negative report on gender surgery now faces threats
 Spanish government, bishops at odds over compensation of abuse victims
 Biden makes Sign of the Cross at pro-abortion rally
 Pope prays again for peace in Ukraine, Gaza
 Fides corrects story on leading African cardinal, apologizes
 Toronto Catholic school board trustees vote against flying pro-life flag
 Catholic Charities found partly liable for 2017 death of 4-year-old
 Sri Lanka cardinal initiates beatification process for Catholic victims of Easter bombings
 Bishops back Native American Child Protection Act
 Ghana’s vice-president meets with Pontiff
 Ohio judge bars enforcement of Saving Adolescents from Experimentation Act
 ‘Teach Us to Pray,’ Vatican resource for Year of Prayer, now available in English

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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation. On November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption. Thus he solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the close of her earthly life, was taken up,…

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