Headlines for August 30, 2024

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 Vatican approves devotion to 1876 French Marian apparitions
 Pope speaks on new vision for Pontifical Urban University
 Pope encourages Catholic community organizers from US to act, move forward
 African bishops decry Western ‘missionaries of evil’
 Future of Pontifical Urban University at stake in special Vatican meeting
 Vatican spokesman decries new Afghan law forbidding women from speaking in public
 Chicago archdiocese introduces ‘green’ burial sites
 Archbishop Paglia pens book on old age
 OAS leader meets with Pontiff
 Papal meeting with Spanish governor

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Easter

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of Our Lady of Fatima; Minor Rogation Day

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Today the Church celebrates an Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, which is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary following apparitions to three shepherd children — Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco — in Portugal in 1917. The message of Fatima includes a call to conversion of heart, repentance from sin and a…

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