Headlines for May 07, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican document on Marian apparitions due May 17
 US commission targets Iran for religious-freedom violations
 Catholic students praying Rosary attacked in Indonesia
 Bolivian Jesuits deny they are a ‘criminal organization’
 USCCB issues National Statutes for the Christian Initiation of Adults
 Vatican message to Buddhists emphasizes peace through reconciliation, resilience
 American Catholics differ on abortion, euthanasia, death penalty
 San Francisco archdiocese holds prayer service for Jimmy Lai
 New bishop named for troubled Knoxville diocese
 Ukraine is being crucified, Catholic leader says in Easter message
 Climate change photo exhibition on display in St. Peter’s Square
 Pope to take part in Corpus Christi Mass, procession
 ‘No to war, yes to dialogue’: renewed papal plea
 Why was an old papal title restored?
 President Biden issues statement for Orthodox Easter
 Vatican, French embassy to host international conference on sport and spirituality

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The Feast of St. James, the Apostle, known as the Greater, is celebrated today. The designation "the Greater" is in order to distinguish him from the other Apostle St. James, and it indicates he was chosen first before the other James. James the Greater was our Lord's cousin, and was St. John's brother.…

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