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Headlines for July 19, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Bishops respond cautiously to papal directive on Latin Mass
 ‘Compassion is born from contemplation,’ Pope tells pilgrims
 ‘The poor and the excluded are your teachers’: papal message to Franciscans
 Woman caught on video destroying statues outside Queens church
 New Mexico lawmaker says bishop denied him Communion
 Save Nigerians from starvation, archbishop urges political leaders
 Texas bishops: Gov. Abbott, don’t shut down our ministry to care for migrant children
 Papua bishops demand freedom for asylum seekers, 8 years after Australian law
 Mob violence closes emergency room of Catholic hospital in India
 Lebanese prelate sees nation as ‘sheep without shepherd’
 Italian bank takeover attempt to figure in Vatican financial trial?
 Los Angeles school district kept millions in Title I funds from Catholic schools, probe finds
 1st-person accounts of religious repression punctuate summit
 Southwest Illinois bishop talks of Catholic Church’s ‘racial divide’
 Cardinal Bo appeals for unity against Covid in Myanmar
 In Delhi, Syro-Malabar Catholics pray amidst the rubble of a demolished church

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Thursday of the Second Week of Advent; Opt Mem of St. Damasus I, Pope

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Damasus I (306-384), who was Supreme Pontiff from 366 to 384. He was a very learned man, well versed in the Scriptures. He commissioned St. Jerome to complete the translation of the Bible into the Latin language. Shortly after his reign the 72 books of the…

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