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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Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr or Solemnity of the Ascension (for certain ecclesiastical provinces)

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Today is the Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle and Martyr. After the Ascension of Jesus, St. Peter proposed to the assembled faithful that they choose a disciple of Christ to fill the place of the traitor Judas in the first missionary band. Lots were drawn, with the result in favor of Matthias. According to…

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