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 Cardinals hear reports on Vatican’s financial situation, discuss polarization, synodality
 US study finds no clear benefits, serious risk to gender-altering treatment for children
 Cardinals confirm: more than 120 electors will take part in conclave
 At UN tribute, diplomats recall Pope Francis’s advocacy for peace, the poor, and the unborn
 At Mass for late Pontiff, Cardinal Gambetti asks: Are we a Church of goats or sheep?
 Ukrainian man recalls 80 letters, 25 meetings with Pope Francis
 May 2025 papal prayer intention: for working conditions
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to plight of Guaraní

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Tuesday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin & Martyr

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Today Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria (d. 305). From time immemorial St. Catherine had been venerated at the monastery on Mount Sinai when, in the fifteenth century, the monks discovered her body. Legend has made of her a young Christian of Alexandria who rejected the…

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