Headlines for July 27, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican financial-scandal trial opens
 Vatican officials using ‘hookup apps,’ data show
 Pope laments scandal of children’s hunger
 Pope renews criticism of ‘unjust food system’
 Mississippi’s attorney general, in brief, urges high court to overturn Roe
 Dutch bishop says motu proprio is ‘like a declaration of war’
 Bishops regret move toward legal abortion in Northern Ireland
 Parish vandalized in British Columbia
 New protests for the failure to appoint Dalit bishops in Tamil Nadu
 Cardinal Marx says he could offer his resignation again
 Tunisian prelate says president’s seizure of power welcomed by people
 Father Jacques Hamel honored 5 years after he was killed at Mass in terrorist attack
 Australian Catholic hospitals call on government to make vaccinations compulsory for all hospital staff
 Newfoundland archdiocese selling bishop’s residence, other assets to pay abuse survivors
 Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuse, dies in Chile
 Kerala diocese announces financial assistance for families with 5 or more children
 28 abducted Baptist students freed in Nigeria
 Colorado bishops issue letter on the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life Congressional policies

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Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Junípero Serra, Priest (USA)

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Today the United States celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Junípero Serra (1713-1784). Miguel Jose Serra was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain. He took the name Junípero when he entered the Franciscan Order in 1730. Ordained in 1737, he taught philosophy and theology at the University of Padua for…

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