Headlines for May 12, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Addressing cardinals, Pope Leo discusses choice of name, ‘fundamental points’ of Church’s path
 In 1st Regina Caeli address, Pope Leo recalls Good Shepherd Sunday, calls for peace
 German cardinal hopes Pope Leo will clarify ‘synodality’
 Pope speaks with Zelensky
 Pope urges media to move beyond conflict and cliché
 Pope celebrates Mass at St. Peter’s tomb
 Guam archbishop confirms: predecessor’s conviction stands
 Dublin archbishop reports record number of adult baptisms
 Vatican issues annual greeting to world’s Buddhists
 ‘To move aside so that Christ may remain’: Vatican spokesman reflects on new Pope
 Seals removed from the papal apartment of the Apostolic Palace
 Prelate shares memories of future Pope’s ministry in Peru

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Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church; Ember Friday

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Today is the Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), who was born at Lisbon, Portugal. He bacame a canon regular and then a Franciscan preaching the Gospel everywhere in Portugal and Italy. Both as a theologian and as a popular preacher he fought vigorously against heresy. His preaching was inspired…

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