Headlines for May 09, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope issues new rules for handling sex-abuse complaints
 Asia Bibi arrives in Canada
 Pope speaks on positive role of Pharisees in Jewish tradition
 True ‘second-class citizens’ are those who reject others, Pope says
 British Foreign Secretary, US Secretary of State discuss persecution of Christians
 ‘Underground’ Chinese bishop’s whereabouts unknown, 23 years after arrest
 India: priest convicted of rape, Catholic leaders decry verdict
 Increased security around Bangladeshi churches following Sri Lanka attacks
 Sri Lanka shrine, attacked on Easter Sunday, reopens for a few hours
 Security increased at Bangladesh’s churches as prime minister calls for high alert
 Bishops welcome EU’s new ‘human-centric’ guidelines on artificial intelligence
 Leading Vatican diplomat condemns sexual violence in war, defends rights of unborn children
 South African bishops appeal for peaceful and fair elections
 Former Maronite Patriarch critically ill
 Custos recalls St. Helena’s finding of the Cross
 Fiji archbishop decries environmental damage
 New Sostituto leads traditional supplication at Marian shrine of Pompei
 Prelates lament school shooting in Colorado
 USCCB names new director of Office of Domestic Social Development

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In the midst of the World War II, Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new…

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