Headlines for January 08, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 ‘Pray urgently,’ USCCB president says following Iranian attack
 FBI probing McCarrick ties to Papal Foundation
 America’s religious order superiors condemn US killing of Iranian general
 ‘Volcano about to erupt’ in Iraq, Chaldean patriarch warns
 ‘Live through trials by staying close to Christ’: Pope reflects on St. Paul’s shipwreck in Malta
 Bishop says he was given no ‘particular mission’ in troubled Buffalo diocese
 Say no to the spirit of the world that leads us to corruption, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 ‘Soleimani killing must unite Islamic countries,’ Malaysian premier says
 Pope sends condolences following Iran air crash
 Wild New Year’s party hosted at Vatican-owned building in Rome
 Hindu opposition stalls India’s tallest Christ statue
 Moscow patriarch denounces divisions in Eastern Orthodoxy
 Constantinople is the mother church of the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch affirms
 Myanmar bishop calls for talks as fighting rages in Rakhine
 Vietnamese priests, religious join local protests against dam
 Vatican spokesman warns against lack of charity in speech
 Church in Australia plans national response to bushfire crisis

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Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Hedwig, Religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

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The Church offers the choice of Optional Memorials today: —St. Hedwig (1174-1243): Hedwig was the aunt of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, was married at an early age to Henry, Duke of Silesia. After their six children had been born, they both strove to advance in sanctity and to enrich Silesia and Poland…

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