Headlines for August 14, 2024

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 Vatican expels Peruvian founder from influential lay movement
 US bishops want role in commission on Indian boarding schools
 Ecumenical Patriarch weighs in on East-West schism, Russian invasion of Ukraine, recent popes
 Report: Croatia’s leading prelate violated Vos Estis
 ‘Gender apartheid’: Vatican newspaper deplores plight of Afghan women, imposition of burqa
 Pontiff has special opportunity to shape Brazilian hierarchy in 2025
 Scottish Parliament considers assisted dying bill
 Nicaraguan regime seizes assets of diocesan Caritas, other NGOs
 Vatican releases official medal for pontificate’s 12th year
 Lebanon ‘on the brink of the abyss,’ leading theologian warns

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Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest

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Today is the Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556). In the year 1521 a cannon ball fractured the left leg of Captain Ignatius Loyola, the future founder of the Jesuits. While he was convalescing, Ignatius read about Christ and His saints and thus turned wholly to God. He then undertook to equip…

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