Headlines for August 29, 2024

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 Pope encourages youth to go to Mass, Confession; pays tribute to St. Augustine, prays for peace
 Bishops, in Labor Day statement, lament wage theft, other violations of human dignity
 Body of St. Teresa of Avila still incorrupt
 Father Rosica faces sex-assault charge
 ‘Vatican Girl’ brother voices no confidence in Vatican probe of her fate
 Abuse scandals in East Timor met by silence, but Pope’s visit brings new attention
 Pope makes quiet visit to St. Monica’s tomb in Rome
 No American groups present at 3 consecutive papal general audiences
 ‘Know yourself, choose yourself, grow yourself, give yourself’: religious community confronts future

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Fri27 March
Lent

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

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It is one week before Good Friday. Today's Mass is a further reminder of how hatred against Christ escalated in those final days before Holy Week. Fridays of Lent have a special penitential quality. —The Vatican II Weekday Missal The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Rupert (d.…

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