Headlines for July 28, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope repeats condemnation of ‘deplorable’ residential schools
 At oldest Canadian pilgrimage site, Pope speaks of reconciliation
 Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau wants more from papal apology
 Women’s religious orders disappearing in US
 Inuits, local Catholics differ in anticipation of Pope’s arrival
 Kansas: nuns urge vote against pro-life amendment
 Myanmar: troops occupy church
 Italian priest rebuked for celebrating Mass on floating lawn chair
 Bishop Paprocki joins critics of Father Martin
 New candor from Vatican’s ‘foreign minister’

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Wednesday of the First Week of Lent; Ember Wednesday

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Today is Ember Wednesday, the beginning of the Spring or Lent Embertide. There are two principal objects for the Ember Days of this period of the year: the first is to offer to God the season of Spring, and, by fasting and…

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