Headlines for May 01, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 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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Easter

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of Our Lady of Fatima; Minor Rogation Day

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Today the Church celebrates an Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, which is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary following apparitions to three shepherd children — Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco — in Portugal in 1917. The message of Fatima includes a call to conversion of heart, repentance from sin and a…

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