Headlines for July 11, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Search of Vatican tombs yields no clues on missing girl
 Vincent Lambert dies of starvation
 British government pledges ‘sea change in our approach’ to persecuted Christians
 ‘Doctors should serve life, not take it away,’ Pope Francis says as Vincent Lambert is starved
 Italian bishops’ conference donates 1M euros to South Sudan
 Vatican spokesman: Probe into Sistine Chapel Choir’s finances will continue
 Jharkand Christians see government land probe as persecution
 9 Catholic schools in Memphis close; 6 will reopen as charter schools
 19-year-old Christian arrested in Punjab for blasphemy after fight over cricket match
 Senior Sri Lankan officials will not be charged with murder in Easter attacks
 Pax Christi bishops sign ecumenical statement against war with Iran
 Exarchy created for Ukrainian Catholics in Italy
 Papua Church network seeks reconciliation
 Panama’s bishops call on new president to consider common good, dignity of the person
 Jesuit leader apologizes for slavery at Georgetown
 Russian Orthodox official in hot water for saying men are more intelligent than women
 In Amazon region, Church network advocates for indigenous group threatened by mining

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Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

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The Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the…

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