Headlines for July 21, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Catholic university in Cincinnati confirms President Biden town hall as criticism mounts
 Citing Covid, Tokyo archdiocese asks Olympic athletes to stay away from churches
 Private party offered surveillance on suspected priests
 Unmarked graves near residential school included ‘other Roman Catholic faith-goers, indigenous and not,’ First Nations chief says
 Cardinal Becciu files defamation lawsuits to counter fraud charges
 Traditional Latin Mass movement sows division, Archbishop Di Noia says
 Program announced for papal journey to Hungary, Slovakia
 Catholics in France divided on Covid vaccine ‘health pass’
 Indian Jesuits brace for fallout of US pullout in Afghanistan
 Minnesota governor restricts conversion therapy
 California law barring ‘misgendering’ of long-term care residents violates 1st Amendment, court rules
 Cardinal Zen defends traditional Latin Mass, criticizes ‘anti-Ratzinger lords of the Vatican’
 Beatification cause opened for Neocatechumenal Way co-founder
 Father Martin: ‘Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice’
 Hundreds of alumni criticize lawsuit against Florida Catholic school

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Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop; Ember Wednesday

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 605), who was born in Rome and died in Canterbury, England, in 604. When Pope Gregory I heard that the pagans of Britain were disposed to accept the Catholic Faith, he sent the prior of St. Andrew, Augustine, and forty of his Benedictine…

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