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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Friday of the Second Week of Lent

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Today’s first reading and Gospel draw a parallel between Joseph, sold into slavery by his brothers and Jesus, the well-beloved Son of the Father, put to death by the religious leaders of the Jews. Together with the prediction of the passion there is here the condemnation of the wicked servants of God whose proud…

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