Headlines for May 16, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope to diplomats: Church serves peace, justice, and truth
 Senate Democrats block approval of Trump ambassador to Holy See
 Budget bill could be opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood
 Georgia law banning abortion cited in case of ‘brain-dead’ mother
 Vatican highlights opening of new churches in China
 Trump picks Archbishop Cordileone for religious-liberty panel
 Iraqi Patriarch says controversial interview was a fraud
 Ukrainian Catholic leader invites Pope Leo to visit Ukraine
 Jubilee of Eastern Churches concludes with gratitude for Pope Leo’s encouragement
 USCCB publishes overview of Trump administration’s actions on immigration
 Vatican diplomat renews call for ethics, governance mechanisms for AI
 Russian Orthodox Patriarch receives Cuban president, recalls meetings with Castro brothers, Pope Francis
 Pope Leo makes 1st episcopal appointment
 L’Osservatore Romano pays tribute to Rerum Novarum
 Vatican newspaper laments ‘the tears of mothers and blood of innocents’ in Gaza

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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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