Headlines for May 22, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Churches are ‘essential,’ Trump declares
 Minnesota bishops to resume public Masses in defiance of governor’s order
 For first time in months, Pope receives small group in audience
 Pope Francis outlines vision for Pontifical Mission Societies
 Australian bishops weigh major reforms in governance
 British Catholic think-tank questions new organ-donor law
 Federal court upholds Maryland governor’s stay-at-home order
 Rift between White House and CDC delays guidance for reopening houses of worship
 Chinese legislation would curb Hong Kong’s autonomy
 Young Belgian Catholics challenge ban on church services
 Russian Orthodox Patriarch suspends 2 bishops
 World Health Assembly includes reproductive health in CO19 resolution, US objects
 Kenyan bishops back petition campaign against sex education plan
 Pakistan: government announces reopening of Punjab churches
 ‘Ecological conversion has to take place now, before it is too late,’ Caritas leader warns
 Hungary outlaws changing birth sex on documents
 Chaldean Patriarch laments plight of Iraq’s Christians, calls for national unity against CO19
 Background: World Communications Day 2020
 British bishop: CO19 brings questions of racial inequality to the fore

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Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest and Martyr

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The Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe (1894-1941) is universally celebrated by the Church today. St. Maximilian was born in Zdunska Wola, Poland as Raymond Kolbe. He consecrated himself to the Lord in the Franciscan Order. Filled with love for the Virgin, he founded the Militia of the Immaculate Mary…

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