Headlines for January 13, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Australian investigators: Vatican finance transfers ‘massively overestimated’
 Pope Francis reflects on the prayer of praise
 Supreme Court reinstates FDA’s in-person abortion pill requirements
 Irish government report ‘lifts lid on harsh and unforgiving attitudes towards unmarried mothers’
 US bishops’ initiative offers immigration policy recommendations to Biden team, Congress
 Leading Vatican diplomat sees health, climate, and work as competing goods
 North Dakota legislation would compromise confessional seal
 Roman court rules Vatican must return seized cash
 Leading Nigerian bishop urges president to address rampant insecurity
 Texas diocese asks court to toss libel suit over list of accused abusers
 Bishops denounce proposal to decriminalize abortion in Dominican Republic
 Abducted Haitian nun released
 Pope accepts resignation of French archbishop amid diocesan financial challenges
 Bishop expresses ‘profound disagreement’ with State Dept. over designation of Cuba as terrorism sponsor
 German bishops’ spokesman reiterates opposition to assisted suicide
 Catholic leaders speak out on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
 Belarus: top Orthodox prelate dies
 Scottish Archbishop Tartaglia dies suddenly
 Toronto Catholic school board pulls LGBTQ group’s website from its resource list
 Cardinal Dolan asks: When will the unborn be safe from violent invasion in the womb?
 Chicago archdiocese launches Covid vaccination awareness campaign

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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