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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Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902). St. Maria was born near Ancona (Italy), the daughter of a poor peasant family. Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety. When she was eleven, she was murdered after refusing repeated sexual advances…

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