Stories for week of April 27, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

Released Tuesday, Apr. 29

 Cardinals settling details of conclave schedule
 Bankruptcy court judge prods New Orleans archdiocese
 Cardinals issue thanks to leaders who attended papal funeral
 Trump supporters hope to influence conclave?
 Vatican newspaper editor writes about Pope Francis’s neck
 Remember Pope Francis by addressing ‘ecological debt,’ pontifical academy president urges
 Vatican City issues sede vacante postage stamps
 300,000 attend national requiem Mass for late Pope in Timor-Leste
 Papal video to youth: ‘Learn to listen to others’
 Cardinals discuss evangelization, interfaith relations, abuse; new cardinal assistants chosen
 200,000 in attendance at Mass as Cardinal Parolin emphasizes late Pope’s teaching on mercy
 Nearly 35 million attended papal events during late Pope’s pontificate
 Cardinals visit the tomb of Pope Francis, pray Vespers

Released Monday, Apr. 28

 New Jersey high court hearing case on state probe of clerical abuse
 Irish Bishop Comiskey, who resigned in 2002, dead at 89
 Former US ambassador to Vatican reveals bid for Ukraine peace conference
 Ecumenical church leaders among mourners at papal funeral
 Study shows frequent, serious complications from abortion pill
 Supreme Court to hear test case on Catholic charter school
 Vancouver archbishop asks prayers after truck kills 11 at festival
 Cardinal Becciu drops campaign for vote in conclave
 Papal conclave will begin May 7
 Late Pontiff interned in Santa Maria Maggiore, as coffin welcomed by the poor and transgendered
 Lay curial prefect writes of ‘everyone together with Pope Francis in a fraternal embrace’
 At least 200,000 attend Pope Francis’s funeral Mass
 Vatican diplomat speaks out against arbitrary expulsion of refugees
 Jewish scholar pays tribute to late Pope
 Vatican newspaper editor sees ‘convergence’ between Teilhard and Pope Francis
 Those who are ‘last’ are the last to say goodbye to Francis, Vatican spokesman writes
 Over 150,000 mourners visit St. Peter’s Basilica before late Pope’s coffin closed

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Tue29 April
Easter

Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

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Today is the Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). She was born Catherine Benincasa in Siena at a date that remains uncertain, was favored with visions from the age of seven. Becoming a tertiary of the Dominican Order, she acquired great influence by her life of prayer and extraordinary…

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