Headlines for June 07, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Trudeau calls for Church apology for residential schools, threatens court action
 Pope expresses shock, prays for healing following discovery of human remains at Canadian residential school
 ‘In the Eucharist, fragility is strength,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 Thirst for God, welcoming others, compassion for the needy: Pope preaches Corpus Christi homily
 Canadian cardinal says Trudeau’s comments are ‘unfair’
 Papal message for World Environment Day highlights ecosystem restoration
 Papal sorrow, prayer for Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Holy Land
 Have an open heart to welcome others: papal message to Premonstratensians
 Ordinations in Shanghai: Beijing’s heavy influence evident
 Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, nun stabbed to death by three teenage girls, is beatified
 Imitate St. Joseph, Pope urges young French priests
 Australian media outlets fined for violating gag order on Cardinal Pell’s trial
 Myanmar military strikes another church in Kayah State
 New nuncio to Canada is a leading Vatican diplomat
 In Bangladesh, Catholics demand justice for 2001 church attack
 New York Times corrected error about Pope Pius XII
 Austrian president meets with Pontiff
 Catholic Charities: President Biden’s budget ‘falls short’ because it eliminates Hyde amendment

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Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of Our Lady of Lourdes

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes today, marking the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to…

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