Headlines for July 02, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 At least 11 Catholic churches vandalized in Calgary
 ‘Suspicious fire’ at Canadian cathedral; minor damage
 US bishops support federal investigation of former residential schools for Native Americans
 New revelations about Vatican employee in financial scandal
 House appropriators begin repealing federal policies preventing taxpayer funding of abortion
 Pope Francis pays tribute to Vatican newspaper, Pius XII’s magisterium
 Build social friendship, flee from populisms and social enmities, Pope says in video
 Vatican joins campaign against ‘vaccination hesitancy’
 World Meeting of Families to combine diocesan events with Rome focus
 New York bishop says Pope should repudiate Church support for colonization
 Iraqi prime minister meets with Pontiff
 US Catholic schools seek rebound from grim year
 Historic Denver church vandalized; motive unclear
 Cardinal Sako sees Church in East as model for a renewed synodality
 Pew study: Indians are devout, but religions want to live separately
 President Biden issues executive order on LGBTQ+ diversity in federal workforce
 Polish archbishop sanctioned by Vatican defends election as mayor

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Monday of the First Week of Lent; Opt Mem of St. Polycarp

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The great themes—the annual catechumenate by which all the people of the Church are renewed in the baptismal promises they repeat at the Easter Vigil; the adventure of God in salvation history and in the coming of the Kingdom in the person of Jesus; and the invitation to deeper friendship…

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