Headlines for January 05, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope cancels traditional Baptism ceremonies in Sistine Chapel
 Iceland’s bishop protests tight limits on Mass congregations
 Central African Republic bishop calls for prayer as regional capital falls to rebels
 Catholic journalists inaugurate news site
 Australian bishops puzzled by Vatican money transfers
 Scotland’s bishops question closing of churches
 Soccer legend was a poet on the field, Pope says in interview
 Lebanese cardinal prods politicians to form government
 California woman pleads guilty to hate crime for threatening to bomb Catholic prep school
 North Dakota attorney general concludes investigation of state’s dioceses
 New US Congress is nearly 30% Catholic
 Canadian man faces ‘hate crime’ charge after disrupting Mass
 Report: Police stop Masses at Iceland’s cathedral for violating lockdown rules
 Pastor dead, 2 hurt in shooting at Texas church
 Do not ‘repress the right to mobility of migrants,’ bishop urges Mexican government
 2020 showed ‘the face of a Samaritan Church,’ leading Latin American prelate says
 73 infected with Covid at Sisters of St. Joseph’s provincial house
 Church in Philippines condemns killings of 9 indigenous leaders
 As Jesuit chaplain retires, House of Representatives picks first female chaplain
 USCCB grants $1.5M for Puerto Rico recovery

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Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

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The Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the…

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