Headlines for July 24, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 French sex assault trial ordered for former apostolic nuncio
 Churches burned, people beheaded in Mozambique’s escalating extremist violence
 Nuncio supports exhuming babies’ remains at Irish home, giving them Christian burial
 US bishops to President Trump: Rescind memorandum excluding undocumented from congressional apportionment
 Despite protests, Vietnamese bishop to tear down 135-year-old cathedral, build larger replica
 German abbess faces landmark trial on Church asylum
 Cardinal Schönborn laments exodus of Austrian Catholics
 US bishops’ agency makes $300,000 grant to assist Native Americans
 Pope encourages boy with disabilities on Camino de Santiago pilgrimage
 Judge halts South Carolina voucher program
 Bishops broker peace talks in Cameroon
 With dam near completion, Catholic leaders urge equitable sharing of Nile
 Australia’s Catholic, Orthodox bishops decry conversion of Hagia Sophia to mosque
 Vatican publishes book containing Pope’s ‘lockdown’ homilies
 Cardinal Scola calls out Pope Francis’ critics: ‘The Pope is the Pope’
 Sister Ruth Lewis, ‘mother of Pakistan’s special children’, loses CO19 battle

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663), who was born at Cupertino, Italy, and died in Osimo. He was of lowly origin and had little formal education. In his youth he was employed as an apprentice to a shoemaker. He joined the Conventual Franciscans as a lay brother but…

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