Headlines for April 30, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican tribunals can judge cardinals, bishops, Pope rules
 Pope calls on Venezuelans to be reconciled, serve one another
 At least 67 attacks on Catholic churches in US over past year
 New bishop for Biden’s diocese
 Montana enacts Religious Freedom Restoration Act
 Sledgehammer attack damages Guadalupe mural at California church
 Notre Dame faculty members protest mandatory vaccination
 Connecticut ends its state religious vaccine exemption
 West Virginia transgender athlete bill signed by governor
 Patriarch Kirill speaks of offer to head opposition in 1990s
 Louisiana bishop eliminates mask requirement at Masses
 Leading Kenyan Catholic doctor, who differed with bishops over vaccine, dies of Covid
 Without tourists, Medjugorje has turned into a ghost town
 ‘I will be with you,’ South Sudanese bishop-elect vows following murder attempt
 Ecumenical Patriarch issues Easter encyclical

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Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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The Church celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Roman Martyrology states Mary was "of the lineage of Abraham, born of the tribe of Judah and of the progeny of King David, from whom the Son of God was born, made man by the work of the Holy Spirit, to free humanity…

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