Headlines for July 23, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope still recovering from surgery, will not celebrate Mass on Sunday
 USCCB issues renewed plea for action on abortion funding
 Oregon senator weighs in on data tracking and former USCCB general secretary
 New Hampshire bishop accused of abusing teenage boy in 1980s
 ‘Profound sorrow’: Cardinal Burke issues statement on Pope’s restrictions on traditional Latin Mass
 Polish bishop cleared after abuse investigation
 Multiple arrests under anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh
 Cuban-American bishop deplores Communist regime’s actions
 In Indonesia, bishops support government’s tough anti-Covid restrictions
 Pelosi defends taxpayer-funded abortion while citing Catholic faith; Archbishop Cordileone responds
 Belarus: churches under pressure to support embattled regime
 Canadian police probing 15 suspicious church fires
 Sisters of Charity deny involvement with Biden town hall at Catholic college
 Religious and political persecution continue in Turkmenistan
 Washington’s Cardinal Gregory calls for immigration reform
 Background: 1st World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly (July 25)
 Cardinal Hummes calls for action on implementing Amazon synod

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Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr

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Today is the Optional Memorial of Saint Apollinaris (d. 79). Early accounts report that Apollinaris was ordained bishop by Saint Peter himself and sent as a missionary bishop to Ravenna during the reign of the emperor Claudius. Renowned for his powers to heal in the name of Christ, he was frequently exiled,…

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