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Annual Vatican message to Buddhists focuses on rights of women and girls

May 13, 2019

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CWN Editor's Note: Vesak, which is mentioned in the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue’s message, is the commemoration of Buddha’s birth.

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Tue17 March
Lent

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent; Opt. Mem. of St. Patrick, Bishop & Confessor (Solemnity: AUS, IRE; Feast: NZ, Scot., Wales)

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The mercy of God is not an invitation to sin. He may forgive us and take away the punishment due to sin. But let us not take it as an encouragement to sin more freely. The warning which Christ has just given to the man cured of his long infirmity is also meant for us: “See, you are well again; now sin no more, for…

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