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Bureau: London
Pope Leo's May prayer intention, released April 30, ties a four-broadcast arc together — May Day, St. Joseph the Worker, Saturday Mass, Sunday Regina Caeli — under the line everyone might have food.
Two central banks call a war-driven oil spike transitory — the same word that broke them in 2021 — while the eurozone print already says otherwise.
Two weeks out from Vienna's grand final, the five-country withdrawal holds, the 1,100-artist letter holds, and the EBU's only answer remains its refusal to vote on Israel's KAN.
Alcaraz withdrew with a wrist injury before the tournament began; Sinner faces Alexander Zverev in Sunday's final, and the most-anticipated rematch on clay is now a Rome question.
Nann's defence concedes the 1995 ceremony, the kneeling, and the missionary Prevost — and asks the reader to file Mother Earth alongside the saints.
The Saturday homily continues Friday's St. Joseph the Worker arc — capital is functional, the person is not — pre-Sunday Regina Caeli.