Headlines for May 26, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Ukrainian Orthodox moving Christmas celebration to December 25
 Pope, suffering from fever, cancels audiences
 ‘Be united to Jesus, close to your brothers and sisters, and active in service,’ Pope tells Don Orione sisters
 Russia acknowledges Vatican peace effort, but no movement yet
 Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich ‘perplexed’ by attorney general’s report on abuse
 Vatican statement boosts ‘green’ tourism
 Hundreds kidnapped from Nigerian villages as violence intensifies
 Jesuit magazine publishes partial defense of anti-Catholic group
 Archbishop Cordileone raps downgrading of vandalism charges
 Bolivian bishops acknowledge being ‘deaf’ to sex abuse victims
 After Dodgers reinstate plan to honor group, LA archdiocese calls on Catholics to support women religious
 Leading Brazilian prelate elected CELAM president
 Newly ordained Roman priests, deacons meet with Pope
 Archbishop Coakley: ‘We have to reclaim the narrative’ on transgenderism
 Volleyball players featured in series of dialogues between athletes, Vatican officials
 Same-sex couples accounted for 1% of households in 2020, US Census shows
 Jubilee year of Blessed Savina Petrilli begins

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Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop; Ember Wednesday

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 605), who was born in Rome and died in Canterbury, England, in 604. When Pope Gregory I heard that the pagans of Britain were disposed to accept the Catholic Faith, he sent the prior of St. Andrew, Augustine, and forty of his Benedictine…

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