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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Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of Thanksgiving Day (USA)

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Today in the United States is the Optional Memorial of Thanksgiving Day in the dioceses of the United States. In 1621 colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition and in 1863 Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday.…

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