Headlines for May 15, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Kennedy orders review of abortion pill effects
 Cardinal Parolin speaks on peace talks, papal trip to Nicea
 Help youth fight loneliness, relativism, Pope urges teaching brothers
 European, African bishops join to question European priorities
 Spread the doctrinal, spiritual heritage of St. Augustine: papal encouragement to Augustinians
 Nashville diocese: Sunday Mass not required if attendance would risk safety
 US Catholic population shifting to West and South
 Texas bishop expects attack on Church’s tax exemption
 Vance, Rubio will head US delegation to Pope’s installation
 Cardinal Müller: Pope Leo can ease divisions within Church
 Can an American Pope vote? Must he pay taxes?
 Filipino bishops rap election irregularities
 Vatican prefect encourages Eastern Catholics to evangelize, hopes they can remain in native lands
 Starvation in Gaza is unacceptable, Jerusalem Patriarch says
 Volunteer force helps Vatican ward off computer hackers
 Louisville archbishop issues new norms for posture during Mass
 Leo XIV launches Instagram account, inherits @Pontifex on X
 Vatican foundation hosts conference on Catholic social thought, polarization
 Opus Dei leader meets with Pope Leo
 St. John Paul immediately forgave would-be assassin, Cardinal Dziwisz says

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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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