Headlines for July 31, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 UN General Assembly president meets with Pope, laments religious persecution
 Trump raps Democrats as anti-Catholic
 Venezuelan bishops join protests of election fraud
 Pope encourages altar servers on Rome pilgrimage
 Abuse scandal in Peru diocese formerly led by Vatican cardinal
 Federal appeals court sides with Catholic employee fired for refusing Covid vaccine
 Leading African cardinal says evangelization is ‘absolutely necessary and urgent’
 Turkey’s President Erdogan decries Olympic blasphemy
 Cincinnati pastor resigns under parishioners’ pressure
 Vatican newspaper ignores Ecumenical Patriarchate’s condemnation of Olympic parody of Last Supper
 Ecumenical Patriarch writes foreword to book by Ukrainian Catholic leader
 Polarization threatens religious liberty, but commitment to truth is the antidote, says US bishops’ committee head
 Papal prayer intention for August: political leaders
 Priest warns of ‘apocalyptic language’ in political campaigns
 USCCB action alert: ‘Now is the time to urge your Senators to strengthen the Child Tax Credit’
 Holy Land bishops deplore killing of young soccer players, renew call for peace

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Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

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Today is the Memorial of St. Gregory the Great (540-604), senator and prefect of Rome, then in succession monk, cardinal and pope, governed the Church from 590 to 604. England owes her conversion to him. At a period when the invasion of the barbarians created a new situation in Europe, he played a…

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