Headlines for September 12, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Cardinal Burke, Bishop Schneider call for prayer crusade, cite dangers of Amazon Synod
 Bishops must be close to people, Pope says
 ‘Wars and walls’ do not serve humanity’s good, Pope emphasizes
 500 Hindu radicals destroy Jesuit college in Jharkand
 China intensifies control over ‘official’ religions
 Muslim-Catholic committee meets at Vatican to promote document signed by Pope, grand imam
 Congressman calls on Bishop Malone to resign
 Cardinal Turkson denounces xenophobic violence in South Africa
 Vatican participates in World Water Week discussions
 In Lahore, a Christian dies of torture in police custody
 Bishops promote reconciliation between Korea, Japan
 Legal dispute in Poland over church built on Holocaust survivor’s land
 2 Planned Parenthood clinics close in Ohio
 South African prelate decries violence against women
 US evangelical Protestant delegation meets Saudi crown prince
 Illinois bishop: God will not intervene to end the crisis of gun violence without our help

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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