Headlines for May 20, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 France’s top court orders government to reopen places of worship
 Norma McCorvey repudiated pro-life conversion before death
 Pope reflects on prayer and the mystery of creation
 Vatican cautions against Israeli annexation of Palestinian land
 Do not abandon the most vulnerable during pandemic, Vatican diplomat says at WHO meeting
 Vatican data-processing functions moved to Secretariat for Economy
 US Labor department moves to protect religious freedom
 More than 600 Nigerian Christians killed in 2020, new report finds
 New book: John Paul II’s mother chose life after her doctor advised an abortion
 Changes in Church governance on agenda at Australian bishops’ plenary council
 Pope merges 2 Alaskan dioceses
 Father Adolfo Nicolas, former Jesuit superior general, dead at 84
 Russian Orthodox monasteries hard hit by pandemic
 Oregon Supreme Court blocks judge’s ruling overturning stay-at-home orders
 More dioceses, religious orders divest from fossil fuels
 ‘I was acting on the best information I had’: Texas bishop reflects on suspension of public Masses
 On Lesvos, Orthodox church vandalized, used as toilet
 At New York hospital, a friar watches over those dying

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