Headlines for August 13, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Cardinal Parolin: Ukrainian advance into Russian territory is ‘very worrying’
 Russian troops destroy Ukrainian Catholic church
 Nigerian diocese boasts 417 active priests
 Dictatorship in Nicaragua arrests 2 more priests and 2 laywomen
 Argentina’s 73 dioceses have only 57 new seminarians
 Court bars ‘baby bonus’ proposal from ballot in Baltimore
 Church of England priest ousted for questioning transgender ideology
 Hong Kong court rejects Jimmy Lai’s appeal
 Respect ceasefire agreement, DR Congo bishops urge
 Sudanese bishops call for dialogue amid humanitarian emergency
 New review board chair: ‘We can’t be satisfied’ until there is zero abuse in Church
 In Syria’s hinterlands, the US wages a hidden campaign against a resurgent Islamic State
 National Eucharistic Congress as watershed for revival among women religious?
 Seoul archbishop, in Assumption message, rues materialism, praises Mary’s listening

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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