Headlines for May 17, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 German Catholic Church could face financial collapse
 Pope, at general audience, pays tribute to St. Francis Xavier
 Pope Francis marks 650th anniversary of Julian of Norwich’s visions
 Caritas elects new secretary-general, vice president
 USCCB, Catholic education leaders call on Biden administration to abandon transgender policy for school sports
 Pope interrupts audience to take phone call
 North Carolina: legislators approve abortion ban over governor’s veto
 Pope Benedict predicted battle with gender ideology, theologian says
 Trump, DeSantis spar on abortion law
 Former abbot of Montecassino acquitted of embezzlement charges
 New EWTN film about Catholic priest in hiding receives blessing from Pope Francis
 Papal reflection on link between peace, development
 WCC general secretary visits Moscow and Patriarch Kirill
 ‘Red alert for the white giant’: Vatican newspaper draws attention to melting of glacier

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Friday of the Third Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr (1577-1622). Fidelis was born at Sigmaringen in Swabia in 1577. He practiced at first as a lawyer and so took to heart the cause of the needy that he was known as the poor man's lawyer. Then he joined the Capuchin Friars Minor…

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