Headlines for October 25, 2024

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 Researcher withholds study showing no benefits from gender treatment
 Cardinal Fernandez: discussion of female diaconate will continue
 Church opposes bid to legalize abortion in Nigeria
 Paris archdiocese rejects suggestion for entry fees at Notre Dame
 Find new ways to evangelize, Pope challenges Passionists
 Vatican message: G7 forum on missionaries an opportunity to ‘strengthen solidarity’
 Holy See calls for ‘decisive action’ on international debt relief
 Pope welcomes Vatican Library exhibit on Sts. Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas
 Police suspect arson in Massachusetts church fire
 New papal encyclical is key to understanding Pope Francis’s teaching, archbishop says
 Uzbek government sees beards as sign of terrorism
 Details announced for jubilee of musical bands
 US archbishop, at synod: Church needs women in decision-making
 Pope’s new vicar general for Rome named Archpriest of Lateran Basilica
 Vatican spokesman highlights late Jesuit’s influence on new encyclical

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Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhlūf, Priest

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The Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel Makhlūf (1828-1868) is celebrated today. He was a Lebanese monk, born in a small mountain village and ordained in 1858. Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he spent the last twenty-three years of his life as a hermit. Despite temptations to wealth and comfort, Saint…

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