Headlines for May 19, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Emphasizing love and unity, Leo XIV installed as 267th Pope
 Vance, Rubio meet with Pope Leo
 The Church’s social doctrine ‘does not claim to possess a monopoly on truth,’ Pope tells Vatican conference
 Do not forgot those who suffer from war, Pope Leo tells crowd in St. Peter’s Square
 Pope calls for ecumenical unity based on shared faith
 Kidnapped priest released in Cameroon
 India’s Cardinal Gracias urges lasting peace accord with Pakistan
 Cardinal Reina to replace Archbishop Paglia as John Paul II Institute chancellor
 Colombia’s president meets with Pontiff
 End use of child soldiers, Vatican diplomat urges
 Priest remembered as ‘father of orphans’ beatified in France
 Thousands attend Jubilee of Confraternities
 South Carolina Supreme Court interprets state’s fetal heartbeat abortion ban

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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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