Headlines for August 08, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 New undercover videos expose Planned Parenthood involvement in body parts
 Pope offers thanks, encouragement to Knights of Columbus
 Chaldean prelate: ISIS ideology still a threat
 Leading South African prelate deplores Olympic parody, lends support to married priesthood
 Pontifical academy president explores need for ‘pop theology’
 Over 82,000 sex abuse claims against Boy Scouts
 Vatican reveals theme for World Day of Peace message
 Archdiocese of Dublin has 1 seminarian
 Severely premature babies can survive, but parents not always told
 Court rules against jail guard who was fired after objecting to LGBTQ training
 No American groups at Pope’s general audience
 Papal almoner oversees new shipment of food, medicine to Ukraine
 Survey: 71% of Americans favor euthanasia

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Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

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Today is the Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). She was born Catherine Benincasa in Siena at a date that remains uncertain, was favored with visions from the age of seven. Becoming a tertiary of the Dominican Order, she acquired great influence by her life of prayer and extraordinary…

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