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Pope Francis intends to invite all Catholic bishops and priests around the world to join the Act of Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will be performed on March 25. Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops asked Pope Francis earlier this month to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary amid the invasion of their country. The last time this occurred was in 1984.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250716/pope-francis-to-invite-catholic-bishops-around-the-world-to-join-him-in-consecrating-russia-ukraine
A relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis’ heart is coming to New York City in the first week of April. The relic is a fragment of Acutis’ pericardium, the membrane that surrounds and protects the heart. Acutis was a young Catholic from Italy with a passionate devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and an aptitude for computer programming. He died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, and became the first millennial to be beatified by the Catholic Church in October 2020.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250720/a-relic-of-blessed-carlo-acutis-heart-is-coming-to-new-york
Pro-life groups in the United Kingdom are speaking out against an amendment which, if passed into law, would permanently allow women to take abortion pills at home. The amendment would extend a temporary provision which started in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the UK government announced that it was temporarily lawful for women to take both abortion pills to procure a chemical abortion in their homes up to nine weeks and six days gestation. Previously, the policy was that women were only allowed to take the second pill at home, while the first pill was required to be taken at a clinic.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250717/pro-lifers-speak-out-as-diy-abortion-amendment-advances
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, a fourth-century bishop and Doctor of the Church whose writings are still regarded as masterful expressions of Christian faith. Cyril is also remembered for his exhaustive Biblical knowledge, and his endurance in the face of misunderstanding and opposition.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-cyril-of-jerusalem-181