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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Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows

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Today is the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady has its roots in Sacred Scripture and in Christian piety, which always associates the Blessed Mother with her suffering Son. Today's feast was introduced by the Servites in order to intensify devotion to Our Lady's…

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