Headlines for November 19, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican approves special norms for Mayan liturgy
 End the scourge of hunger, Pope urges G20 leaders
 Make prison visits a priority, Pope tells Spanish seminarians
 Papal encouragement to Italian youth to encounter Jesus
 Dioceses should commemorate local saints, blesseds each year, Pope writes
 World needs more international cooperation, Cardinal Parolin tells G20
 Pope offers criteria for libraries
 Haitian bishop: international help needed to restore order
 2 martyred Albanian priests beatified
 Kenya archdiocese rejects donations from president
 Brooklyn pastor’s duties trimmed for financial misconduct
 Renewed papal appeal for prayer for peace
 Lebanon’s Christians fear effects of Israeli attacks
 Harris campaign showed ‘aversion’ to Catholic voters, organizer charges
 Details announced for Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers

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Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Sts. Sixtus II, Pope; and Companions, Martyrs; St. Cajetan, Priest

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Today is the Optional Memorial of Sts. Sixtus II and his companions (d. 258). Pope Sixtus II was one of the first victims of the persecution under the Emperor Valerian. Felicissimus and Agapitus were two of his deacons who were executed with him. Sixtus governed the Church from 256 to 258. His name is…

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