Headlines for July 28, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Reach out to the elderly, Pope urges young people
 Accused bishop appeals to India’s top court on rape charge
 Indian cardinal urges equal rights for dalits, citing Black Lives Matter
 Former Pope cites Bach’s enduring influence
 Portland archbishop decries violence, calls for peaceful efforts against racism
 Pope writes preface for book reflecting on pandemic
 Pandemic restrictions remain for Church in Hong Kong
 San Francisco won’t cite archdiocese after church wedding
 Scotland’s bishops adopt English Standard Version for new lectionary
 Human life begins at conception, Mexican bishops emphasize
 Virginia priest-blogger says bishop has threatened to have him laicized
 Washington Post, Covington Catholic teen settle $250M lawsuit out of court
 Cardinal Zen defends Second Vatican Council
 Central African Republic bishops advocate for socio-political change
 France will rebuild Notre Dame’s spire as it was
 Florida parish rebuilding after arson attack
 Tensions grow between a San Diego church and the neighborhood around it
 Archbishop Wenski: Respond to violent attacks with love
 Welsh archdiocese receives government grant for outreach during pandemic
 Fire rips through Charlotte-area parish

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Tuesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Martin de Porres, Religious

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639), who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother, and for…

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