Headlines for September 03, 2024

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 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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Fri6 February
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Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs

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Today is the Memorial of St. Paul Miki, a Japanese Jesuit, and his twenty-five companions (d. 1597), who were martyred in Nagasaki, Japan. They were the first martyrs of East Asia to be canonized. They were killed simultaneously by being raised on crosses and then stabbed with spears. Their executioners…

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