Headlines for May 18, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope speaks on Book of Job, ‘tenacity for awaiting God’
 Tackle poverty to protect children from child labor: papal message
 Follow Pauline Jaricot’s example, Pope tells Pontifical Mission Societies
 Top Vatican diplomat visiting Ukraine
 To be a teacher is to live a mission, Pope tells Filippini Sisters
 Pope expresses closeness to people with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
 The Church is a ‘field hospital for vulnerable,’ Pope tells French organization
 Jimmy Lai faces new indictment, possible life sentence, in Hong Kong
 Indian governor signs anti-conversion law
 Santa Fe archdiocese reaches settlement in bankruptcy case
 New Prague archbishop seen as transitional
 Papal approval for international character of Scholas Occurrentes
 Canadian archbishop, Cowessess chief seek new ways of ‘walking together’
 Pope will preside at Pentecost Mass, Vatican announces
 ‘No Vatican tears for Cardinal Joseph Zen,’ Hong Kong columnist writes
 Communion restored between Serbian, Macedonian Orthodox churches
 Ukrainians ‘have made the Bible come alive’ for world, says archbishop

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Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest & Doctor of the Church

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619), the first Capuchin Franciscan to be honored as a Doctor. St. Lawrence was born in 1559 at Brindisi, a town located on the Adriatic coast of the heel of Italy. Educated from his youth by the Conventual Franciscan Friars, he acquired…

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