Headlines for July 17, 2024

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 ‘Walk together’ with the most vulnerable and with Jesus, Pope emphasizes in migrant-day video
 Bishops in conflict over USCCB staff cuts
 Papal encouragement for Latin American youth meeting
 American artists, writers plead for retention of Tridentine Mass
 ‘Large law enforcement presence’ at National Eucharistic Congress; ‘no known threat’
 The invisible become more visible on Sea Sunday, Vatican cardinal writes in message
 Papal prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel for peace
 USCCB president calls for respect for human dignity in American political discourse
 US bishops award $10.5M from special collections
 Vatican diplomat deplores targeting of schools, hospitals, houses of worship in armed conflict
 Young Gaza Catholic describes daily routine
 ‘The price of exclusion’: 250 million children deprived of education, Vatican newspaper warns

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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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