Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday — and more broadly from the Church’s entire global priesthood — some Catholic women were determined that their voices will be heard.

India executed precision strikes on key terror infrastructure inside Pakistan, targeting Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammed strongholds. The strikes hit training camps and operational headquarters, including Muridke and Bahawalpur, long protected by Pakistan’s military-intelligence apparatus. These facilities served as hubs for training, indoctrination, and planning numerous terror attacks against India, including the Pulwama attack, before being neutralized.

Earlier in the morning, Pakistan again resorted to cross-border shelling in the Karnah area of J&K’s Kupwara district for the second day in a row.