Headlines for June 22, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope adds 3 invocations to the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
 Pope Francis at Angelus address: Be fearless witnesses of Christ
 Pope thanks Italian doctors, health care workers for heroic service during pandemic
 San Francisco archbishop criticizes toppling of saint’s statue
 Chinese bishop re-arrested
 China recognizes another ‘underground’ bishop
 Benedict returns to Vatican
 5 beatification causes advance
 Renewed papal plea for refugees
 Irish College in Rome halts training of seminarians
 Syracuse diocese files for bankruptcy
 Retired Pope visits former home, parents’ grave in Germany
 Bernice King: The Pope and my father are united in the same dream
 US, European bishops offer prayers for US-Russia arms control meeting
 President of German Catholic women’s group also works with pro-abortion lobby
 Catholics in US urged to pray, reflect, act to safeguard religious freedom
 ‘Enter through the back door’: secret church services in Mexico and Brazil defy CO19 rules
 Cardinal Pell to publish prison diary musing on case, Church
 Colombia’s bishops welcome freeing of hostages by ELN

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Today is the Fourth of the O Antiphons, O Clavis David (O Key of David). O sublime majesty of the coming Redeemer! To Him has been delivered the key, the government of the house of David (Is 22:22). Boundless is His power over the graces and privileges of the Church, over the souls and hearts and…

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