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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Today is Ember Wednesday, the beginning of the Spring or Lent Embertide. There are two principal objects for the Ember Days of this period of the year: the first is to offer to God the season of Spring, and, by fasting and…

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