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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Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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In the midst of the World War II, Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new…

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