Headlines for January 19, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘St. Joseph, father in tenderness’
 Myanmar’s army bombs Christian refugees
 Macron wants abortion in European charter of rights
 Top Knight of Malta: Vatican reforms threaten sovereignty
 Italian court decision did not favor Vatican finance-trial defendant
 Milwaukee archdiocese sets policy against ‘gender theory’
 Philadelphia’s Ukrainian archbishop assesses Russia-Ukraine crisis
 Egyptian parliament to approve new law on status of Christians
 Hundreds die daily in troubled Ethiopian region, diocese reports
 Vatican announces motto of Jubilee Year 2025: ‘Pilgrims of Hope’
 USCCB calls for greater federal funding to protect houses of worship
 In Israel, number of Christians rises, but percentage continues to decline
 Bishops in Central African Republic decry exploitation of resources
 New York priest receives 1st John Paul II Prize for Catholic‒Jewish Studies
 Papal donations for Philippine typhoon victims, migrants on Belarus-Poland border
 Citing abortion views, DC restaurant boots pro-life group
 Cancel culture targets charity donors
 Polish priest arrested for trading fake Covid passports
 New Jersey bishops decry passage of expansive new abortion law
 Pope Tawadros: For Copts there is no longer any ban on visiting Jerusalem

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The thought expressed in today’s first reading in Jeremias is one of the basic themes of the great prophets; it is to be found also in the Psalms (particularly Ps 1) and the book of Proverbs. Trust in men and trust in God—the former belies our expectations and only the latter assures our happiness and enables us…

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