Headlines for September 27, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Abuse scandal in spotlight as Pope visits Belgium
 Vatican Secretary of State demands nuclear disarmament in UN speech
 Service, mission, joy: Pope challenges Luxembourg’s Catholics to evangelize
 Pope Francis, in book foreword, lauds St. John Paul II
 Pew survey finds most Catholics dispute Church teachings
 Cardinal Parolin: Human well-being must be goal in confronting anti-microbial resistance
 Synod of Bishops seen as ‘audience of spectators’

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Wednesday of the First Week of Lent; Ember Wednesday

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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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