Headlines for May 13, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope authorizes official pilgrimages to Medjugorje
 Cardinal Parolin touts Vatican-Beijing deal in interview with Communist Party newspaper
 Terrorists kill six in attack during Mass in Burkina Faso
 Papal almoner, in act of civil disobedience, turns on power to occupied building
 Women religious ‘must not become the servants of a cleric,’ Pope emphasizes
 Support the ‘imbalance’ of the Gospel, Pope tells Rome’s priests
 Pope Francis ordains 19 men to the priesthood
 ‘The Good Shepherd is attentive to each one of us,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 ‘Change today’s economy’ and ‘give a soul to the economy of tomorrow,’ Pope tells young economists and entrepreneurs
 Pope meets with leaders of the Roman Curia
 St. Paul was ‘hard-headed but not hard-hearted,’ Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Sports are a ‘great school’ of self-control and respect for others, Pope tells Italian organization
 German women boycott Mass, refuse church work, in protest against hierarchy
 Annual Vatican message to Buddhists focuses on rights of women and girls
 Church leaders in South Africa hopeful after elections
 Psychologist blocked on Twitter for opposing sex-change surgery for children
 Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir dead at 98

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Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr or Solemnity of the Ascension (for certain ecclesiastical provinces)

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Today is the Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr. After the Ascension of Jesus, St. Peter proposed to the assembled faithful that they choose a disciple of Christ to fill the place of the traitor Judas in the first missionary band. Lots were drawn, with the result in favor of Matthias. According to…

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