Headlines for May 15, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope Francis, at general audience, reflects on virtue of charity
 Burundi’s bishops lament extrajudicial abductions, killings
 Elderly priests meet with Pope at Roman parish
 Everyone can build peace, Pope writes in new book
 US bishops discuss polarization
 Pro-life activist sentenced to almost five years in jail
 Leading Polish prelate accused of negligence in addressing abuse
 Survey finds broad public support for abortion persists 2 years after Dobbs
 Report: Burkina Faso’s military executed Christians in 2 villages
 Register editorial urges Pope to see US Catholicism first-hand
 Critical evaluation of Vatican-China agreement
 Vatican, Chinese prelates, scholars to mark 100th anniversary of Council of Shanghai

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Easter

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of Our Lady of Fatima; Minor Rogation Day

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Today the Church celebrates an Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, which is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary following apparitions to three shepherd children — Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco — in Portugal in 1917. The message of Fatima includes a call to conversion of heart, repentance from sin and a…

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