Headlines for October 30, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Confirmation should not be ‘sacrament of departure,’ Pope tells audience
 Congo cardinal questions push to beatify Belgian King Baudoin
 Father Belda, key figure in Zanchetta affair, is Pope’s delegate to Pope Francis Memorial Foundation
 Vatican tribunal report explains ‘trial of the century’ verdicts
 Cincinnati archdiocese breaks ties with Girl Scouts
 ‘Newman Guide’ Catholic colleges report enrollment surges
 Religious freedom is a basic human right, USCCB committee chairmen emphasize
 Holy See ‘deeply disturbed’ by rise in global military spending, Vatican diplomat says
 Ukrainian priest discusses 18 months in Russian prison; ‘their goal was to break us’
 We cannot surrender to ‘cycle of retaliation and revenge,’ Jerusalem Patriarch preaches
 Papal tribute to late Cardinal Martino

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Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

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The thought expressed in today’s first reading in Jeremias is one of the basic themes of the great prophets; it is to be found also in the Psalms (particularly Ps 1) and the book of Proverbs. Trust in men and trust in God—the former belies our expectations and only the latter assures our happiness and enables us…

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