Headlines for August 01, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Papal press conference: colonialism, resignation, Synodal Way, contraception
 Pope Francis, in Iqaluit, condemns residential schools, calls on youth to ‘come to the light’ of Christ
 Negotiation ‘only reasonable thing to do’ in Ukraine, Pope says
 Biden administration would force health care workers to perform gender transition procedures; bishops object
 Pope to visit Kazakhstan in September
 Chaldean Patriarch confirms plan to resign at 75
 Salvadoran archbishop welcomes crackdown on street gangs
 Appeals court turns down parents’ bid to save ‘Archie’
 Bishops’ contrasting steps to implement Traditionis Custodes
 Pope thanks Virgin Mary for protection during pilgrimage to Canada
 Traditionalist community ends public Masses in Chicago
 AP instructs journalists to back ‘transgender’ claims
 Prelate from Ghana to lead African bishops’ conferences
 Ukrainian Catholic leader deplores Russian troops’ ‘inadmissible savagery and cruelty’
 Fiji’s president meets Pontiff
 Following prelate’s arrest, 3 US cardinals issue statement in support of Maronite bishops
 African National Eucharistic Congress announced for 2023
 Papal prayer intention for August: small businesses

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Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

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The Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the…

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