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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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Tue18 August
Ordinary Time

Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today in the Roman Martyrology is the commemoration of St. Agapitus (d. 259), a martyr of Palestrina, not far from Rome. His cult, which is very ancient, was particularly popular in the eternal city where Felix III (492) caused a church to be built in his honor. Ancient inscriptions show clearly…

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