Headlines for July 27, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Supreme Court, 5-4, refuses to halt Nevada limits on worship services
 Pope encourages ‘adventure of holiness’
 Spanish cardinal celebrates funeral Mass in defiance of regulations
 Pope welcomes Ukraine ceasefire agreement
 Refugee who volunteered at French cathedral confesses to setting blaze, lawyer says
 Disease specialists refute report that paints churches as breeding grounds for CO19
 Tennessee judge blocks implementation of pro-life legislation
 Gay lobby at Vatican kept lid on McCarrick scandal: Archbishop Vigano
 Franciscans grapple with colonial legacy of Junípero Serra
 AP: Black Catholics’ history largely ignored in US Catholic schools
 Germany’s bishops divided over Vatican instruction on parishes
 Victims, advocates criticize Indonesian cardinal’s response to abuse crisis
 Knights of Columbus founder to be beatified in October
 Catholic music publisher vows investigation into Haas as allegations mount
 Public Masses resume in Mexico City
 ‘Adopt a human-centric approach to artificial intelligence,’ bishops ask EU
 In pictures: Hagia Sophia opens as mosque for Muslim prayers
 Gallup analyzes ‘Joe Biden and the Catholic factor’
 Los Angeles Times criticizes archdiocese, parish over stance on housing project

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; St. Ansgar, Bishop

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The Universal Calendar offers two saints, Blaise and Ansgar, for separate celebration as Optional Memorial. St. Blaise (or Blase) (d. 320) enjoyed widespread veneration in the Eastern and Western Churches due to many cures attributed to him. According to tradition, he was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and…

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