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• Supreme Court weighs appeal from NJ faith-based pregnancy centers (Our Sunday Visitor)
  The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in the case of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin. Matthew Platkin, New Jersey’s attorney general, issued a subpoena demanding the names of donors to faith-based pregnancy centers, which contend that the subpoena is unconstitutional.
• Cardinal Koch: Benedict XVI is my favorite pope (Katholisch.de)
  The prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity said in an interview that “Benedict XVI is above all my favorite theologian and then my favorite pope.” Cardinal Kurt Koch, the dicastery’s prefect since 2010, said that “Pope Benedict was a scholar, he focused on the content of the faith. Pope Francis focused more on […]
• Vatican halves 2024 budget deficit, according to new financial statement (Pillar)
  The Vatican’s structural budget deficit fell from 83.5 million euros in 2023 ($97.2M) to less than 44.5 million euros ($51.8M) in 2024, according to recently released financial statements. The Holy See’s budget as a whole had a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.9M) because of donations and investments.
• 'We need less Herod, trapped in fear,' Cardinal Tagle tells Asian Catholic leaders (Fides)
  Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, told Asian cardinals, bishops, and lay leaders that “we need more wise people, pilgrims who seek, listen, learn, and worship. We need less Herod, trapped in fear, power, and despair.” Cardinal Tagle was the keynote speaker at the Great Pilgrimage of […]