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 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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Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Romuald, Abbot

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Romuald (951-1027) who was born in Ravenna of a noble family. He was the founder of the Camaldolese monks—one of the Italian branches of the Benedictines—in which the eremitical life is combined with life in community. He died in 1027, after a life of…

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