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As the Catholic world mourns the Pope, Catholic leaders look ahead to the conclave, the process by which Catholic Cardinals select the next Pope.
The timing of Pope Francis’ funeral, which will span several days, has yet to be announced.
Five years of legal battles over the Affordable Care Act’s preventative services mandate will come to a head at the Supreme Court on Monday, in a case that will decide if millions of Americans will continue to have free access to certain screenings, tests, HIV drugs and counseling. Why it matters: It’s the fourth time the high court will review the ACA, this time over a technical question about the constitutionality of the task force that…
Despite being called a ‘phenomenal’ advocate for migrants, Pope Francis’ statement in Dublin on clerical abuse was labelled ‘disappointing’.
Two runners, one elderly and the other young, died during a half marathon in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Sunday, according to organizers.
The participants were identified as 84-year-old Akkoyan Rsaliyev, who has regularly taken part in races since 2021, and 21-year-old Nurbol Ahmadi, who had participated in a 10-kilometer race and had registered for several long-distance events, including a marathon in Almaty.
Rsaliyev suddenly felt bad in the first kilometer of the 21.1-kilometer run and responders in an ambulance that drove up to him found no pulse, the marathon organizers said in a statement. They quoted Dr. Alibek Khozhanazarov as saying an initial diagnosis was that the runner had a pulmonary embolism and had been suffering from chronic arterial hypertension.
Then Ahmadi lost consciousness at the 16-kilometer mark and doctors arriving at the scene tried in vain to resuscitate him. The preliminary diagnosis was a pulmonary embolism and acute heart failure, according to Dr. Aigerim Yesdauletova.
The Courage to Be the First corporate foundation, which supported the race, expressed its condolences to the families and friends of the runners who died.
The organizers said they “acted according to the regulations: medical services, emergency services and the police worked quickly and in a timely manner. Despite the measures taken, it was not possible to save the lives of the participants.”
Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis.
The Vatican has recognised 167 Sri Lankan Catholics killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings as ‘witnesses of faith’, six years after the attacks that killed over 260 people.