Headlines for May 10, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope Francis solemnly proclaims 2025 jubilee year, issues bull ‘Hope Does Not Disappoint’
 Pope urges generosity to counter declining birth rates
 Pope ‘very likely’ to visit Luxembourg later this year?
 Washington attorney general charges archdiocese with impeding abuse probe
 Pope lists priorities for theological study
 Avoid ‘rubricism’ in liturgy, Pope cautions
 USCCB releases updated list of catechetical resources deemed in conformity with Catechism
 Pope mourns victims of attack on displaced persons in DR Congo
 Bishop Paprocki charges Biden with sacrilege
 Papal encouragement for Massachusetts college
 New York State files suit against pro-life pregnancy centers to end abortion-pill reversals
 Charity coordinator examines ‘remarkable increase’ of Protestantism in Honduras
 Papal aid for flood-stricken Brazilians
 Ghanian bishop calls on political candidates to emphasize environmental protection

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Memorial of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Agatha (d. 250), who died in defense of her purity, in Catania, Sicily. After Quintanus, the governor of Sicily, tried in vain to force her to consent to sin, she was imprisoned for a month with an evil woman. He then turned from sensuality to cruelty and had her…

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