Headlines for January 22, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican tribunal convicts three laymen in financial scandal
 Hundreds reportedly dead after massacre at church in Ethiopia
 Archbishop Gomez repeats: Abortion is the ‘most fundamental’ injustice
 US bishops, in flurry of statements, welcome President Biden’s actions on immigration, environment
 Total elimination of nuclear weapons is ‘moral and humanitarian imperative,’ Vatican foreign minister says
 English bishops ask government to transfer patient to native Poland after court orders withdrawal of food, water
 Abortion zealots disrupt Mass in Ohio cathedral on Roe anniversary
 Fauci assures WHO: Biden will protect abortion
 Biden, Harris underline commitment to abortion on Roe anniversary
 Pope, due to visit Iraq in March, condemns Baghdad attack
 Cardinal sees Danish legislation as threat to religious freedom
 Bishops call on Israel to work with Palestinian authorities to make Covid vaccines accessible to Palestinians
 Malaysian bishops extend ban on public Masses
 Portugal: bishops suspend public Masses
 At inaugural prayer service, faith leaders pray for nation, its leaders
 Priest among casualties at Madrid parish explosion
 In Burkina Faso, a frantic search for a missing priest
 Bishops call on EU to help make the Mediterranean ‘a place of peaceful encounters’

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Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

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Today's Memorial of Saints Cornelius (d. 253) and Cyprian (190-258) commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first anti-pope, who believed that apostates…

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