Headlines for May 23, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Canonization looms for Carlo Acutis
 Vatican envoy urges UN action to protect civilians in war zones
 Divorce legislation moves forward in Philippines
 In best health-care situation, everyone heals together, Pope says
 South Sudan: missing priest declared dead
 Vatican overturns bishop’s dismissal of Texas Carmelite superior
 Health insurance must cover sex-change surgeries, federal appeals court rules
 New head of Syro-Malabar church downplays liturgical controversy
 Harvard chooses to store relic, not offer it to Church
 Knights of Columbus sues Biden administration for denying permit for Memorial Day Mass
 Spanish Poor Clare community announces break from Church
 ‘Cross of joy’ for Vatican celebration of World Children’s Day blends Christian, fairy-tale themes
 Another priest abducted in Nigeria
 Cardinal Tagle: The Church in China is ‘fully Catholic and fully Chinese’

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Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas), (Holy Day of Obligation USA)

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