Headlines for October 21, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Worldwide baptisms fall over 15% in 6 years
 Papal encyclical on Sacred Heart to be released this week
 Pope Francis canonizes 14 saints
 Synod, October 18: some delegates angered by Cardinal Fernández’s absence from dialogue
 Father Radcliffe: discuss Synod document without fear
 Priest killed in Mexico’s Chiapas state
 Peruvian cardinal-designate condemns lay group as fascist revival
 Another pro-life activist begins lengthy prison sentence
 Eswatini’s king meets with Pontiff
 Following synod’s conclusion, synod leaders will ‘reread’ Church’s last 60 years
 Renewed papal gratitude for children’s Rosary for peace
 Passionists elect new superior general

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Friday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, Bishop

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret (1807-1870), bishop, the founder of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Anthony Mary Claret died in the Cistercian monastery at Fontfroide in France on this date in 1870. He was canonized in 1950 and listed in the…

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