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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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Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

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The Church commemorates the Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong (1746-1815). He was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 other Chinese Catholics. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were…

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