Headlines for December 31, 2024

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 Top CWN headlines for 2024 in review
 McCarrick criminal trial suspended—forever
 Sri Lankan cardinal mandates male-only altar servers in his archdiocese
 Priest in India summoned to court for ‘pulpit abuse’
 Indian missionary priests attacked in Ghana
 Franciscan friar in Syria reports precautions, ‘without any fear,’ at Christmas Masses
 Vatican Mass for 2nd anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s death
 Vatican releases Pope’s prayer intentions for 2025
 A challenge for Cardinal Gregory
 White House releases strategy to counter Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate
 USCCB president pays tribute to President Carter’s work on behalf of peace

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Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin (USA)

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Today the USA celebrates the Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680). Kateri was born in 1656 near the town of Auriesville, New York, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was baptized by Jesuit missionary Fr. Jacques de Lambertville on Easter of 1676 at the age of twenty. She devoted her life to…

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