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USA records increase in abortions due to distribution of abortion pill - ZENIT - English : According to Guttmacher’s analysis, more than one million abortions were performed in states without total bans, marking a marginal but significant increase from the previous year

  Young Men, Against All Odds, Are Awakening to the Sacred https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/young-men-against-all-odds-are-awakening-to-the-sacred?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare

  Download for free the ebook "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens https:// publicdomainlibrary.org/en/books/a-tal e-of-two-cities?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-replies

A great summary of Francis in the light of the Gospel: the great homily of his funeral in its entirety - ZENIT - English : Homily delivered by Cardinal Re, dean of the College of Cardinals

From Cells to Vatican: Inmates May Attend Pope Francis' Burial in Rare Gesture of Mercy - ZENIT - English : The penitentiary administration has expressed its full support for the plan, contingent on security assessments and the authorization of the surveillance court.

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  Half of Polish Clergy Claims to Have Been Victimized Just for Being Priests - ZENIT - English https://zenit.org/2025/04/19/half-of-polish-clergy-claims-to-have-been-victimized-just-for-being-priests/?eti=23952

  SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 20  Bl. Francis Page, 1602 A.D. Jesuit martyr of England. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Francis was a member of an English Protestant family of Harrow-on-the-Hill, in England. Reconciled to the Catholic faith, he was ordained in 1600 and sent from Douai, France, to England. He was arrested there two years later. While in prison, Francis entered the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. He was martyred at Tyburn, England, and was beatified in 1929.   https://www.jesuit.org.sg/april-20th-francis-page-sj/ Bl. John Finch, 1584 A.D. Martyr of England. He was a yeoman farmer of Eccleston, Lancashire, who returned to the Church. He harbored priests and acted as a clerk and catechist. John was arrested and tried with Blessed James Bell. They were executed at Lancaster. Both were beatified in 1929.   Bl. Robert Watkinson, 1579-1602 A.D. English martyr . Born at Hemingborough, Yorkshire, he left England and studied at Douai, France, and then Rome ...

  Pope’s Via Crucis meditations: Embrace God’s economy in a world of algorithms - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-via-crucis-meditations-easter-2025-god-s-economy.html

  “The Siege of Christendom,” was inevitable. But we survived it. Had it not been for the conversion of the world, we should have gone under. The Siege of Christendom In the formation of Christendom, its economic and social structure, under the influence of the Catholic Church, the next period after the first foundational one (of five hundred years) is another, also roughly five hundred years; from approximately the year 500 to about the year 1000. It is a period of five centuries-the 6th,7th,8th,9th and 10th-which have been commonly called the “The Dark Ages,” but which may more properly be called “The Siege of Christendom.” It was the period during which the Graeco-Roman Empire, already transformed by Catholicism, fell into peril of destruction at the hands of exterior enemies. It was assaulted from the north, from the east, and from the southeast in two separate fashions. Hordes of wholly pagan barbarians, some issuing from Scandinavia, many Mongols, many Slavs, fiercely thrust...