Headlines for August 14, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope Francis, Los Angeles mayor discuss climate change, immigration
 1 year after bridge collapse, Pope writes to people of Genoa
 Pope remembers Cardinal Obeso as ‘selfless pastor’
 Federal court protects Christian women’s shelter from Anchorage transgender law
 Philippine president declares Blessed Virgin’s nativity a civil holiday
 774 patients euthanized in Ontario during 1st 6 months of 2019
 Church in Peru opens South America’s 1st pediatric cancer hospital
 Murder of parish secretary is latest in series of anti-Catholic incidents in Ivory Coast
 Vatican prefect encourages African Catholic journalists in their efforts for peace
 Archbishop, Catholic Relief Services object to spending freeze on some foreign aid
 Archbishop Cordileone asks: ‘Is it really possible to retrieve a sense of common decency?’
 Singapore archbishop calls for new generation of leaders to confront cultural changes
 Sri Lanka’s Christians admired for nonviolent response to bombings
 Floods in India have left ‘death, devastation and a bleak future,’ bishop says

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Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor; Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin & Doctor; Ember Wednesday

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Today the Church celebrates two Optional Memorials: St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor (1542-1621) was born in Montepulciano, Italy, and died in Rome. The son of noble parents, he entered the Society of Jesus, finishing his theological studies at Louvain, Belgium. His services to the Church…

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