Headlines for May 22, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 ‘Wherever you are, invoke the Father’: Pope concludes weekly audiences on the Lord’s Prayer
 Indian police investigating Cardinal Gracias on abuse cover-up charge
 Christians bear life’s burdens without losing peace, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Amazon synod’s working document approved
 Pontifical council, World Council of Churches issue joint document on education for peace
 US withdrawal will leave power vacuum, Iraqi archbishop warns
 New attitudes, rather than planning, will reinvigorate Church in Italy, leading prelate says
 Brazilian bishop accused of theft, covering up abuse resigns
 Vatican diplomat urges US, Russia not to abandon nuclear treaty
 Holy Land bishops: Mutual respect, not international diplomacy, offers a true path to peace
 Anglican-Catholic dialogue turns to ethical teaching
 Mexican bishops deplore murder of 2 young people in front of church
 Congolese priest murdered in Mozambique
 Spanish nun beheaded in Central African Republic
 As Church in Thailand marks 350th anniversary, Vatican cardinal urges faithful to be missionary disciples
 Caritas leaders gather to discuss ‘one human family, one common home’
 As Ramadan ends, Coptic communities distribute food to poor Muslims

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Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Our Lady of Lourdes

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes today, marking the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to…

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