Headlines for September 16, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Pope, in press conference, says sending weapons to Ukraine can be morally acceptable
 Pope suppresses Populorum Progressio Foundation
 Senate won’t vote on same-sex marriage bill until after election
 Vatican ‘foreign minister’ to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral
 Interim leader discusses the Order of Malta’s 5-year renewal process
 West Virginia legislature passes abortion ban with few exceptions
 Vatican sought Xi-Pope meeting in Kazakhstan, China declined—source
 Mozambique bishop: ‘in order to stop jihadists, we must give young people a future’
 European Parliament condemns anti-Catholic repression in Nicaragua
 Myanmar’s soldiers used church as kitchen, laid land mines
 Comboni: Sexual abuse victims welcome apology from missionaries
 Central African Republic cardinal appeals for preservation of peace ‘at all costs’

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Friday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Januarius, Bishop & Martyr; Ember Friday

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Januarius (d. 304). Very little is known about this martyr saint. He was Bishop of Benevento in Campania. He died near Naples, about the year 304, martyred under the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. Around the year 400 the relics of St. Januarius were moved to Naples,…

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