Catholic Nutshell News: Wednesday 4/9/25

Topics include: Oldest bishop is 103, California libraries provide contraceptives, Pope ‘is doing very well,’ & Shrinking donor funding bad for Africa

“Here was an almond tree in bloom before me”

Today's sources are the National Catholic Register, CNA, Aleteia, CatholicVote, The Pillar, OSV, Word on fire, and CNA. (Catholic Nutshell is a subscription service for faithful, hopeful, & curious Catholics willing to exercise the Catholic News Muscle)