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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Easter

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Peter Nolasco (1182-1258), born in France, but later settled in Barcelona, Spain. After taking part in the Crusades against the Albigensians, he used his inheritance to free Christian prisoners held by the Moors. He later founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy…

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