Headlines for October 29, 2024

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 Papal abuse commission presents first annual report
 Seminary rector is latest Nigerian kidnap victim
 Texas nuns dismissed from Carmelite order
 Warm meeting between Ukrainian Catholic leader, Ecumenical Patriarch
 Pope to open holy door at Roman prison at beginning of 2025 jubilee year
 Cardinal Renato Martino, longtime Vatican diplomat, dies at 91
 Vatican unveils mascot for 2025 world fair, jubilee; announces cultural events
 Leading Albanian lawmaker meets with Pontiff
 Pakistani Christian father jailed after daughter abducted, forced to marry, convert to Islam
 Papal prayer for Philippine tropical storm victims

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Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Our Lady of Lourdes

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes today, marking the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to…

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