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

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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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