Headlines for June 02, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Paris archbishop laments violent attack on Catholics honoring city’s martyrs
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: Jesus, model and soul of all prayer
 US embassy to Vatican flies rainbow flag during ‘Pride’ month
 Bishop blesses ‘Pride’ event organized against Vatican statement
 USCCB issues action alert on Hyde amendment
 More Catholic villagers flee as fighting escalates in Myanmar
 Pandemic is not a punishment from God, Chaldean Patriarch says
 Catholic school students outperform public school peers, despite slight decreases in overall academic scores
 ‘Abhorrent’: Indigenous leaders slam Church for lack of accountability on residential schools
 Disappointment, anger in Tamil Nadu after Pope appoints a non-Dalit bishop
 Montana governor signs bill on transgender athletes
 Tulsa bishop, other Christian leaders recall 1921 race massacre
 Nation’s oldest cathedral celebrates bicentennial
 Father Swamy tests positive for Covid

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Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Hedwig, Religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

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The Church offers the choice of Optional Memorials today: —St. Hedwig (1174-1243): Hedwig was the aunt of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, was married at an early age to Henry, Duke of Silesia. After their six children had been born, they both strove to advance in sanctity and to enrich Silesia and Poland…

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