Headlines for May 05, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 New state law in Washington will attack confessional seal
 All cardinal-electors now present in Rome
 Cardinals discuss continuance of Pope Francis’s initiatives
 Cardinal Fernández recalls Pope Francis’s work ethic, teaching on work
 Cardinal Mamberti presides at final Mass for Pope Francis
 Cardinal Gugerotti, at Mass for late Pontiff, preaches on creation, Eastern Catholic churches
 German bishops’ leader promises to work for women’s ordination
 Cardinal Ranjith: victims of 2019 Easter bombing recognized as witnesses of faith
 Vatican newspaper decries world’s difference to hunger in Gaza
 Jesus ‘slaps me upside the head when I make a mistake,’ Pope said in 2021 interview
 ‘Popemobile’ to become medical clinic for Gaza
 Catholic tourist slain by Islamist terrorists in India; bishop hails him as martyr
 Israeli president signs book of condolences to mourn Pope Francis’s death
 Vatican spokesman: Pope Francis was a prophet whose message on war went unheeded
 Archbishop Cordeleone on how to end the liturgy wars
 Vatican publishes list of delegations from other religions at papal funeral

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