Headlines for July 04, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Holy Land commission: Israel–Hamas war does not meet just-war criteria
 Cardinal Parolin: The concept of just war is ‘being reviewed’
 UK cultural grandees urge Vatican not to restrict traditional Latin Mass
 Migrants meet with Pope
 Cardinal Hollerich to lead pilgrimage of 50,000 altar servers to Rome
 Haitian priest kidnapped, freed
 South Sudan bishop who survived murder attempt given new diocese
 Nearly 80% of Gaza’s residents have been displaced, Vatican newspaper emphasizes
 World Council of Churches announces major ecumenical gathering for 2025
 Turkish archbishop to host commemoration of 1700th anniversary of Council of Nicaea

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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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