Headlines for June 15, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope requires Vatican approval for new lay associations
 Elderly should serve and be served, Pope tells audience
 Vatican foreign minister emphasizes respecting Ukraine’s territorial integrity
 Bishop chairmen plead for peace as attacks on pro-life organizations mount
 New Philippine President Marcos ready to work closely with Church, nuncio says
 Ukrainian Catholic leader deplores Russian torture of civilians
 Pope’s approval rating falls to 52% in Argentina
 Priest killed in Tanzania
 Archbishop of Canterbury lectures African Anglican primates on poverty, environment
 At least 50 civilians killed in suspected jihadist raid on Burkina Faso village
 Australian archbishop criticized for article on ‘modern green religion’
 Bolivian bishops: include religion question in next census
 Vatican announces international summit on sports and inclusion

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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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