Headlines for October 28, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 ‘An endless party,’ not an ‘aged marriage’: Pope approves synod’s final document, will not issue apostolic exhortation
 Pope concludes synod with call for a missionary Church
 ‘The cry, faith, the journey’: papal reflection on Christ’s healing of Bartimaeus
 Leading Vatican diplomat laments violations of right to life
 Serve migrants, Pope encourages Scalabrinian missionaries
 Pakistani Christian man arrested for protesting daughter’s forced marriage
 Abrahamic Family House delegation meets with Pontiff
 Iranian archbishop: quest for supremacy bars path of peace
 Pontiff mourns destruction of hospitals, schools in wartime; renews appeal for prayers for peace
 Cellphones in confessionals: a security risk?
 Michigan ranked last among US states on religious freedom
 Jesuits, Pope mourn slain Mexican priest
 Papal encouragement of Catholic-Jewish relations
 Spend time in prayer with new Sacred Heart encyclical, USCCB president advises

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Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of Thanksgiving Day (USA)

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Today in the United States is the Optional Memorial of Thanksgiving Day in the dioceses of the United States. In 1621 colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition and in 1863 Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday.…

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