Headlines for July 13, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 President Biden’s new LGBTQI+ envoy said Catholic teaching on gender ‘fuels hate’
 Cuban police drag priest through streets
 Vatican backs off prediction on Pope’s release from hospital
 Cardinal Tobin, Archbishop Lori urge faithful to petition Congress on Hyde amendment
 Report finds 22% of Americans are Catholic; rise of the religiously unaffiliated slows
 USCCB issues action alert on infrastructure legislation
 Venezuelan bishops decry human-rights violations
 Olympic athletes will be barred from Catholic churches in Tokyo
 Boston College faces fury over denied vaccine exemptions
 Nun kidnapped in DR Congo
 Diocese of Rochester: Bankruptcy judge rejects jury-trial motion, insurance settlement
 Amid Catholic opposition, states are legalizing composting of human remains
 Christian group calls for free election amid rare protests in Cuba
 Cardinal Cupich writes of ‘underlying spiritual crisis’ in Chicago’s violence
 Papal condolences for victims of hospital fire in Iraq
 Catholic Social Services trailer set on fire in Nebraska
 Descendants of enslaved people join dig on former Jesuit plantation

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Saturday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Albert the Great, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great (c. 1200-1280), son of a German nobleman. While studying at Padua when the Master General of the Dominicans, Jordan of Saxony, succeeded in attracting him to that Order. He was to become one of its greatest glories. After taking his…

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