Headlines for July 14, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 German Catholic Church lost over 220,000 faithful in 2020
 Pope leaves hospital, returns to Vatican
 Sri Lanka cardinal wants action against former president, prime minster over Easter bombings
 Retired Buffalo auxiliary bishop named in new abuse lawsuit
 Lay group decries mandatory vaccination at Jesuit university
 Church vandalized in Saskatchewan
 Persecution worsens for Christians in post-coup Myanmar, experts say
 Brazil’s bishops back investigation of country’s Covid vaccine purchases
 Franciscans elect Italian as 121st successor to St. Francis of Assisi
 US bishops welcome moratorium on federal executions
 Italian senate moves forward on ‘homophobia’ bill despite Vatican concern
 More than 160 unmarked graves found at site of former residential school
 EEOC chairwoman unilaterally issues gender guidelines
 Vancouver archbishop reinstates Sunday Mass obligtation
 Father Altman removed from ministry by Wisconsin bishop
 Archbishop Gomez: continued prayers for Pope’s recovery

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Ash Wednesday, the Beginning of Lent: The time has arrived in the Church year for the solemn observance of the great central act of history, the redemption of the human race by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In the Roman Rite, the beginning of the forty days of penance is marked with the austere…

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