Headlines for May 16, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope Francis recalls the words of Our Lady of Fátima
 Police search files of Dallas diocese
 Detroit archbishop calls for new efforts to observe the Sabbath
 Syrian rebels fire missiles at largely Christian town
 Chicago archdiocese using cemetery funds to pay abuse settlements
 Ontario court rejects ‘conscience clause’ for doctors
 No Chinese translation of the Global Times interview with Cardinal Parolin
 Sri Lanka: Muslim leaders ask forgiveness for the Easter massacres
 Elderly Christian women assaulted in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain
 Leading Vatican diplomat calls for renewed commitment to multilateralism
 Kenyan bishop who hosts 200,000 South Sudan refugees pleads for peace
 As European elections approach, Caritas rues social exclusion, demographic decline
 Catholic, Protestant leaders call for ‘courageous leadership’ in Northern Ireland
 New Bible translation, the ‘Bible of the Church in America,’ completed
 Pope gives migrant children a ride on his popemobile
 For first time, Neocatechumenal Way bishop to lead mainland US diocese

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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