Headlines for January 11, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Italian bishop bars unvaccinated priests, deacons from in-person ministry
 Patriarch Kirill hopes his relations with Pope Francis will help establish peace
 Ousted Vatican archbishop rumored at odds with papal policy
 Papal appeal for end to violence in Kazakhstan
 Catholicism losing majority status in Latin America
 Pope, cardinal offer condolences to victims of Bronx fire that killed 17
 Coptic leader strongly defends male priesthood
 India: priest faces hate-speech charge for criticizing Hindu-nationalist rule
 Bishop appeals to Filipinos not to hoard medicine
 Annual March for Life still on this year in Washington
 Papal Christmas greetings to Eastern churches
 Indigenous Christians living in fear in Bangladeshi village
 Islamabad: Christian accused of blasphemy released on bail
 Pope seen indulging ‘psychoanalysis at a distance’
 Mexican cardinal tests positive for Covid
 Custos, civil officials celebrate Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on the River Jordan
 +Sister Maria Kaleta, 92
 Pope to preside at 4 public liturgies in January, February, Vatican announces
 Vatican spokesman sees Pope Francis ‘building bridges in the name of fraternity’

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Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

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The Church commemorates the Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong (1746-1815). He was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 other Chinese Catholics. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were…

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