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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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Mon10 August
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Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr

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Today the Church celebrates the Feast of Saint Lawrence (d. 258), who was chief among the seven deacons who served the Roman Church during the mid-third century. The young cleric held a position of great trust, caring for the goods of the Church and distributing its alms among the poor. He was arrested…

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