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Today's Readings
- Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 GAL 3:1-5
  Responsorial Psalm LK 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75
  Gospel LK 11:5-13
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- Experts ask: What impact will Hispanic Catholics have on the 2024 election?
  
  6 hours ago
  
  Lia Garcia, director of Hispanic Ministry at the Archdiocese of Baltimore, speaks at a panel discussion exploring the impact of U.S. Latinos on the 2024 election hosted by Georgetown University'
- United Nations human rights watchdog speaks out against men competing in women’s sports
  
  20 hours ago
  
  null / Credit: Pavel1964/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA). A United Nations report on violence against women and girls in sports defended spaces for women on Tuesday by...
- Supreme Court hears oral arguments in consequential Oklahoma death penalty case
  
  21 hours ago
  
  Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocacy groups, rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on Sept.
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- The Real Coach Kennedy: True Story Behind ‘Average Joe’ Movie
  
  Courtesy photo Coach Joe Kennedy kneels on the football field. A modern-day David and Goliath drama and a love story of a man and wife with painful pasts...
- Experts Ask: What Impact Will Hispanic Catholics Have on the 2024 Election?
  
  Georgetown University/Art Pittman Lia Garcia, director of Hispanic Ministry at the Archdiocese of Baltimore, speaks at a panel discussion exploring the impact of U.S...
- 9 Days of Prayer: Novena for Mental Health Starts Oct. 10
  
  Goswyn van der Weyden, “Altarpiece of St. Dymphna,” 1505 Beginning Thursday, the feast of St. Dymphna, the U.S. bishops invite Catholics to join a nine-day...
News from the Vatican
- New cardinals celebrate diversity of pope’s appointees
  
  Several of the new cardinal-designates announced by Pope Francis have applauded the increased diversity of those getting a red hat, saying the appointments signal a shift in center of Catholicism...
- Pope says Church must ‘confront forms of paganism’ in secularism
  
  In his meeting with his brother Jesuits in Belgium, Pope Francis call secularization a “complex phenomenon” and noted sometimes the Church must “confront forms of paganism.”
- Synod participants say process is about more than women’s issues
  
  Participants in the ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality have said that while questions surrounding the role of women in the Church are important, they can be distracting from other key issues on...
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