Headlines for May 17, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 New Vatican norms centralize decisions on apparitions
 Conservatism is suicidal, Pope tells ‘60 Minutes’
 Church teaching on women’s ordination can change: Cardinal Hollerich
 Catacombs testify to Christian hope, Pope says
 In reversal, Vatican approves appointment of gay-friendly seminary dean
 Myanmar military airstrikes destroy Catholic, Baptist churches
 Jerusalem Patriarch visits Gaza for 1st time since war began
 Chinese priest, layman missing: another crackdown?
 Maryland schools may force students to read LGBTQ books, federal appeals court rules
 Pope praises California death penalty moratorium, governor says
 Cardinal Parolin says Vatican will attend Ukraine peace summit
 New Islamist attacks in Mozambique lead to mass flight of civilians
 Vatican, on appeal, overrules a St. Louis parish merger
 Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria
 Ecumenical Patriarch urges environmental responsibility
 Papal tweet recalls UN peace day
 Nigeria is nation where Christians are most likely to be ‘hunted and killed’
 Indonesian bishops’ conference marks 100th anniversary
 Kenya’s bishops call for swift government response to floods

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Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin (USA)

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Today the USA celebrates the Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680). Kateri was born in 1656 near the town of Auriesville, New York, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was baptized by Jesuit missionary Fr. Jacques de Lambertville on Easter of 1676 at the age of twenty. She devoted her life to…

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