Headlines for May 12, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican employee took post with firm in suspect London real-estate deal
 Good Samaritans who guard and preserve life: Pope pays tribute to nurses, midwives
 Pope Francis calls on EU to face panedemic’s consequences in spirit of harmony, collaboration
 English bishops criticize government plan for slow reopening
 Church leaders alarmed over Philippine government’s shutdown of broadcast network
 The Holy Spirit helps us as we make decisions, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 We have access to the Father in Jesus through prayer: papal homily
 Supreme Court justices divided in debate over Catholic schools and ‘ministerial exception’
 Pope renews invitation to pray, fast on May 14
 Parishes facing financial crises in Boston archdiocese
 Manila prelate rules out online Confession
 Vatican diplomat weighs in on ethics and intellectual property rights
 Arkansas is allowed to require CO19 tests before abortions, federal judge rules
 Moscow Patriarch lauds Russia’s World War II soldiers
 EU cardinal laments nationalism, criticizes closed European borders
 ‘Shocking and beyond our comprehension’: Indian prelate laments plight of migrants
 Public Masses resume in Estonia

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Friday of the Third Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr (1577-1622). Fidelis was born at Sigmaringen in Swabia in 1577. He practiced at first as a lawyer and so took to heart the cause of the needy that he was known as the poor man's lawyer. Then he joined the Capuchin Friars Minor…

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