Headlines for September 03, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope arrives in Jakarta to begin 12-day trip
 Women’s congregations hit hard in latest crackdown in Nicaragua
 Ukrainian monastery abbot drafted for military duty
 Pontiff greets each reporter on flight to Indonesia
 Pope renews condemnation of warfare
 Indonesia is home to world’s largest seminary
 ‘Hope, Action and the Eucharist in Creation’: US bishops’ statement for World Day of Prayer for Creation
 Irish teacher jailed again over dispute on transgender policy
 Federal court allows Alabama law prohibiting puberty blockers to go into effect
 Prelate encourages Vatican to articulate evangelizing mission to global sports world
 Economics professor to lead Vatican foundation on Catholic social doctrine
 Assisted suicide, sold as compassionate, becomes monstrous in Canada

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Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of Thanksgiving Day (USA)

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Today in the United States is the Optional Memorial of Thanksgiving Day in the dioceses of the United States. In 1621 colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition and in 1863 Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday.…

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