Headlines for August 14, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 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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Wednesday of Holy Week is traditionally known as Spy Wednesday, to commemorate the treachery of Judas, who made a bargain with the high priest to betray Jesus for 30 silver pieces (Matt 26:14-16; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:1-6). The reading from the Prophet Isaiah is the third portrayal of the…

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