Headlines for May 13, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican to cease broadcasting Pope’s daily Mass on May 18, the day public Masses resume in Italy
 Christian prayer is intimate, trusting, confident, Pope says at weekly audience
 Pope contrasts Jesus’ peace, worldly peace
 Dublin archbishop: prepare for full reopening
 Federal judge rules all Kentucky churches can have in-person services
 USCCB: Urge your members of Congress to strengthen SNAP in next CO19 relief bill
 New Catholic Bible translation approved for liturgical use in India, published in US
 Bishop appointed to Pakistan’s new commission on religious minorities
 Influential Jesuit journal takes critical look at China and CO19
 Franciscans mark 30 years at the UN
 New York state legalizes commercial surrogacy
 6 Jesuit priests in Philadelphia die of CO19
 Pentecostals are in a ‘spiritual war’ against CO19 in Africa—as are some political leaders
 +Cardinal Renato Corti, 84
 ‘Martyrs walking toward the barking dogs’: Nigerian bishop speaks out on murder of seminarian, mother
 Sewer cleaners wanted in Pakistan: only Christians need apply

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Agatha (d. 250), who died in defense of her purity, in Catania, Sicily. After Quintanus, the governor of Sicily, tried in vain to force her to consent to sin, she was imprisoned for a month with an evil woman. He then turned from sensuality to cruelty and had her…

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