Headlines for September 16, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Mary’s faith is ‘journey, prophecy, and compassion,’ Pope preaches at final Mass in Slovakia
 Pope warns movement leaders against desire for power, disloyalty
 Same-sex marriage is rejection of all, Pope-emeritus Benedict writes
 Catholics have highest US vaccination rate
 New Jersey bishop: Vaccination exemption for clergy ‘will be minimal’
 Bishops’ migration chairman welcomes House provisions on immigration
 In Madhya Pradesh, priest on trial for Christmas caroling is acquitted
 Historic Viennese church given to SSPX
 Kenyan bishops bar politicians from addressing church congregations
 Australian bishop’s resignation ‘raises some big questions’
 Hmong Catholics in Vietnam are imprisoned for evangelization efforts
 Abductors release Nigerian priest
 Greek foreign minister scolds Turkey for mosque at Hagia Sophia
 Google cancels ads for reversal of abortion pill
 We are living ‘in the valley of death,’ 3 Philippine archbishops say

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Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Christopher Magallanes, Priest & Martyr, & His Companions, Martyrs

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes (1869-1927). Christopher was joined in martyrdom by twenty-one diocesan priests and three devout laymen, all members of the Cristeros movement, who rose up in rebellion against the anti-Catholic Mexican government during the 1920s. Having erected…

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