Headlines for May 12, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Extreme abortion-on-demand bill fails in US Senate; ‘stop pushing abortion,’ bishops urge
 Cardinal Zen released on bail
 Pope calls Sri Lankans to nonviolence amid social unrest
 Foreigners enrich society, Pope says in annual message for World Day of Migrants
 Birth dearth is ‘real social emergency,’ Pope says
 EU financial watchdog upgrades Vatican status to ‘regular’
 Wives of soldiers in Mariupol ask Pope to help save their husbands
 ‘Napalm girl,’ photographer meet with Pope Francis
 Vatican audit finds no crime in sales of Buenos Aires archdiocesan property
 Cardinal Parolin warns of crisis of democracy
 Terrorists kill kidnapped priest in Nigeria
 Remains of 2 Iraqi martyr priests found in chapel in Nineveh Plain
 Russian soldiers loot Catholic seminary in Ukraine
 Terrorist receives life sentence for assassination of Catholic MP

Want more news? Visit the Archives.

Mon22 December
Advent

December 22, O King of the Nations (O Rex Gentium)

Image for December 22, O King of the Nations (O Rex Gentium)

Today is the Sixth of the O Antiphons, O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations). "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return" (Luke 19:12). This nobleman is Christ, the Son of God, King of all nations. His kingdom is over all men and over all things, both…

Learn more about this day.

December Calendar ›
Subscribe to Insights...free!
News, analysis & spirituality by email twice-weekly from CatholicCulture.org.
First name:
Last name:
Email address: