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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Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs

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Today is the Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter (d. 304) who were two Roman martyrs who suffered under the Diocletian persecution. The first was an exorcist, the second a priest. Their cultus was so important that after peace was restored to the Church, Constantine built a basilica in their…

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