Headlines for June 23, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope appeals for care for refugees and for creation
 Nicaragua and El Salvador bishops push back against government-backed critics
 Black Catholics: Words not enough as Church decries racism
 ‘The Holy Land is in fire, in a situation of war,’ former Patriarch warns
 Christian man murdered in Jharkand on account of his faith
 Church group seeks probe into Kerala nun’s unnatural death
 No word on McCarrick report as 2nd anniversary of his removal passes quietly
 Federal appeals court dismisses church’s challenge to CO19 order as moot
 ‘Religious freedom is under stress throughout the world,’ prelate notes
 Holy Orders, Baptism, Confirmation: sacramental guidelines help dioceses navigate CO19
 Vatican spokesman defends development of doctrine as ‘fidelity in newness’
 ‘Take courageous decisions to safeguard the refugees,’ Caritas urges world leaders
 Papal donation of 2 ventilators to CO19-stricken Ecuador
 Prelates in war-torn lands see missed opportunity for global peace in time of pandemic
 Russian Orthodox Patriarch, Putin celebrate 75th anniversary of victory over Nazis

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates Pope St. Marcellus I (d. 309), who was elected Pope in 308, just at the time when the Emperor Diocletian had spent somewhat his first violence against the Church. In Rome he reorganized the Catholic hierarchy disrupted by the persecution. He was exiled and put to…

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