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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Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Joseph the Worker

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The Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to Christianize the concept of labor and give to all workmen a model and a protector. By the daily labor in his shop, offered to God with patience and joy, St. Joseph provided for the necessities of his holy…

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