Headlines for September 09, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope arrives in East Timor; abuse issue clouds celebration
 Papal Mass in Papua New Guinea: ‘Open yourselves to the joy of the Gospel’
 Pope Francis asks Papua New Guinea Catholics to spread the Gospel to ‘peripheries’
 International Eucharistic Congress opens in Ecuador
 New charges against Abbé Pierre, founder of Emmaus Movement
 US secures release of Nicaraguan political prisoners, including lay Catholics
 Cardinal opposes efforts to declare Papua New Guinea a Christian nation
 Supreme Court declines Oklahoma bid to restore federal funds cut over abortion policy
 Texas Carmelites disregard bishop’s peace offer
 Franciscan University to build DC program
 Vatican official, other Christian leaders open Season of Creation
 Cardinal Grech: Nun’s meditations can help Church have ‘ever more synodal style’
 Physicists, theologians reflect on time, eternity

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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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