Headlines for May 14, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope lauds ‘sense of mystery’ in Eastern Catholic liturgy
 UK rules on reporting abuse will not guard confessional seal
 Government-backed Chinese Catholic groups welcome Pope Leo XIV
 Pope makes surprise visit to his Augustinian brothers in Rome
 Episcopal Church refuses settlement help for South African refugees
 Chartres pilgrimage, overwhelmed, caps registrations at 19,000
 Vatican explains papal coat of arms
 Pope meets with Italian tennis star
 Africa will be ‘central to the pontificate of Leo XIV,’ Augustinian leader says
 At Jubilee of Eastern Churches, Armenian Catholic Patriarch prays for peace
 Vatican newspaper rues Israeli attack on Gaza hospital
 Robert Royal sees the Pope’s ‘bold bet’ on Leo XIII
 Assassination attempt against St. John Paul commemorated at Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
 Trappist abbot sees ‘consonances’ between Pope Leo’s election, Algerian martyrs
 Jewish US novelist writes front-page Gospel commentary for L’Osservatore Romano

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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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