Headlines for September 19, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Trial opens for Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen
 Vatican cardinal escapes gunfire in Ukraine
 Pope encourages Trappists to pursue quest inspired by Jesus’ ‘dreams’
 Pope at Angelus: Be creative and clever in doing good always
 Church burned, priests and religious sister kidnapped in war-torn Cameroon
 Papal prayer for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia
 Change mankind’s course to avoid climate change, Pope says in new interview
 Haitian Church leaders urge action to end unrest
 Blood of St. Januarius liquefies
 Orthodox prelate retires following allegation of affair
 ‘Fight like heaven’: Lansing bishop begins 54-day Rosary novena for defeat of abortion ballot initiative
 USCCB: During National Migration Week, ‘encounter those living on the existential peripheries’
 National abortion ban would be constitutional, legal scholars reason
 French bishops’ conference leaders travel to Kyiv
 US bishops publish prayer for Season of Creation
 US-based group is leading the Pope’s charge to abolish the death penalty

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