Headlines for May 31, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Secretariat of State stonewalling Pope’s orders on investment funds: report
 Pope to hold crisis summit with Lebanon Christian heads
 Pope Francis reflects on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity
 Kenyan bishops protest lockdown of churches
 China, facing demographic pressure, eases birth-control policy
 Mali’s bishops condemn military coup
 Papal tribute to late Armenian Catholic Patriarch
 Indonesia: police thwart would-be church bombers
 Archbishop Cordileone supports Archbishop Aquila’s call for repentance for German synodal path
 Nuncio to Mexico says sex abuse cases were ‘covered up’
 +Cardinal Cornelius Sim, 69
 Lay volunteer nurses beatified as martyrs in Spain
 In Malawi, Catholic parish given 21 days to vacate ‘Muslim territory’
 Peruvian bishops condemn mass killing by the Shining Path
 Pope lauds team sports at audience with basketball federation
 Prime Minister Boris Johnson married in Catholic ceremony in Westminster Cathedral
 Church in India remembers sacrifice of priests and nuns who died from Covid
 Despite challenging headwinds, Vatican Radio retains its relevance and reach

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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