Headlines for May 09, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 City of Rome bracing for Jubilee Year pilgrims
 Pope urges parish priests to become missionaries of synodality
 Texas attorney general files injunction against Catholic agency for migrants
 Killings of Christians continue in Nigeria
 Vatican removes block on gay-friendly university dean
 Texas archdiocese keeps distance from archbishop’s comments on Gaza campaign
 Cause moves forward for beatification of Communion and Liberation founder
 Peruvian bishops decry euthanasia
 Cardinal Zuppi, leading EU bishop pen letter to ‘dearest European Union’
 Catholic broadcasters challenge FCC rule on collecting employee data
 Appeals court finds for Catholic school in dismissal of homosexual teacher
 Blood is ‘flowing everywhere’ in Ethiopia, prelate says
 USCCB committee chairman backs bill compensating nuclear radiation exposure victims
 Chile’s bishops, president discuss security, migrants
 Papua New Guinea indigenous leader, Pope discuss defense of creation
 Pope recalls Our Lady of Luján, Pompeii
 Logos, mottoes released for papal Asian trip

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Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Martin de Porres, Religious

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639), who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother, and for…

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