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Today's Readings
- Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17
  Responsorial Psalm Ps 104:1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-30
  Gospel Mk 7:14-23
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- Biden tells Congress to codify Roe, pass LGBTQ protections
  
  4 hours ago
  
  U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The speech...
- Guess who’s coming to the State of the Union? Pro-life hero and target of Biden Justice Department Mark Houck
  
  20 hours ago
  
  Mark Houck talks to reporters outside the U.S. District courthouse in Philadelphia with his lawyers, Peter Breen (left), Brian McMonagle (right), and Andrew Bath (background) following his...
- Democrats invite pro-abortion guests to State of the Union
  
  20 hours ago
  
  null / Wikipedia Boston, Mass., Feb 7, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Several Democratic congressmen have invited pro-abortion activists as their guests for President Joe Biden’s second State of the...
National Catholic Register
- Denver Archdiocese Says Fired Lesbian Teacher Violated Contract
  
  Always dreamin All Souls Catholic School and Church in Englewood, Colorado The Archdiocese of Denver terminated her employment from the parish...
- Benedict XVI Describes ‘Protestantization’ of the Eucharist in Posthumous Publication
  
  World Youth Day in Sydney. Benedict XVI had arranged for the writings to be published after his death.
- Catholic Social Teaching and the Two-Party System: Pro-Life Democrat Dan Lipinski on Pope Leo XIII, Partisanship and His New Teaching Role
  
  Dan Lipinski is the new Pope Leo XIII Fellow on Social Thought at the University of Dallas. The former congressman reflects on today’s political...
News from the Vatican
- Francis accuses critics of ‘instrumentalizing’ death of Benedict XVI
  
  “People wanted to score points for their own side,” Francis said. "The people who instrumentalize such a good person, so close to God…those people don’t have ethics, they are people who belong to a...
- Pope taps American to head Vatican’s powerful Dicastery for Bishops
  
  Pope Francis has tapped Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago native who currently leads the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, to take over the Dicastery for Bishops.
- In Congo, South Sudan, Pope will see the Church on the frontlines
  
  Pope Francis heads to the war-torn African nations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan this week, where the church has long been on the frontlines of relief efforts amid war, poverty...
Rome Reports