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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Fri21 August
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Memorial of St. Pius X, Pope

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Pius X, Pope (1835-1914). Joseph Sarto was born in humble circumstances at Riese, a small village in Venetia, on June 2, 1835. He was successively curate, parish priest, bishop of Mantua, Patriarch of Venice — offices to which his keen intelligence, hard work,…

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