Headlines for June 19, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican finance inspector received 123 suspicious activity reports in 2023
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the Psalms as ‘symphony of prayer’
 Nearly 40% of world’s permanent deacons serve in US
 Pope recalls slain Ukrainian solider in call for peace
 FBI questions whistleblower nurse on illegal ‘transgender’ treatment for children
 Vatican hosts conference on fighting surrogacy
 International Theological Commission drafting document on First Council of Nicaea
 Papal tweet warns against hate speech
 USCCB pro-life chairman: Supreme Court ruling does not change facts about abortion pills
 No accounts of extraterrestrial life in Vatican Archives, official says
 Vatican conference explores youth ministry promotion, highlights singer’s Manifesto for Change
 Bishop Paprocki explains bid to ‘sunset’ CCHD
 Israeli hostage’s mother praises Pope’s ‘global vision of suffering’

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Memorial of Sts. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs

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Today is the Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions (d. 1886), the companions numbering twenty-one other Ugandan martyrs. They are the first martyrs of Sub-Saharan Africa and true witnesses of the Christian faith. Charles Lwanga, a catechist and a young leader, was martyred in 1886 with a group of…

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