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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Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major

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We celebrate today the Optional Memorial of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major, one of the four most illustrious churches of Rome. While each diocese and parish keeps its own dedication anniversary, the universal Church commemorates the consecration of the four great Roman basilicas, the…

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