Headlines for July 07, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Holy See renews Pope’s debt-relief appeal for poor nations
 Christian patriarchs protest radical effort to reconfigure Jerusalem
 Christian presence in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains faces ‘extinction’
 Catholic Charities leader apologizes for ‘racism’ accusation
 ‘We all must get involved’ during pandemic, say Central American bishops
 Iowa bishops ask Trump to stop execution
 Catholic educators make plans to address racism in America
 Over 110 bishops denounce corporate abuse
 Bishops, other faith leaders call for ‘robust’ international CO19 funding
 Kenya’s bishops decry ethnic hatred
 Archbishop Wenski criticizes public school monopoly
 ‘Buried by a landslide of injustice’: Cardinal Bo deplores mining disaster
 Vatican spokesman highlights Pope’s magisterium for peace
 Major Andean Marian pilgrimage suspended for first time in 150 years
 In Dallas diocese, 8 ‘COVID priests’ visit, anoint the sick
 El Paso’s bishop rolls back church re-openings, bans wedding and funeral Masses
 Pittsburgh diocese forms new parish to meet spiritual, cultural needs of black Church members
 Lockdown has increased risk of grooming, abuse of minors, says expert

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Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Junípero Serra, Priest (USA)

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Today the United States celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Junípero Serra (1713-1784). Miguel Jose Serra was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain. He took the name Junípero when he entered the Franciscan Order in 1730. Ordained in 1737, he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Padua for…

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