Headlines for September 19, 2023

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Leaked Vatican investigation: Australian bishop preyed on vulnerable men and boys
 Be ‘specialists in prayer and charity,’ Pope tells Rogationists
 Pope repeats: nuclear weapons are immoral
 Papal encouragement for Vatican Pharmacy staff
 New Russian ambassador to the Vatican meets with Pontiff
 Australian bishops raise alarm about online misinformation bill
 Kenyan archbishop decries government recognition of gay-rights group
 Sin is suicidal, says Peruvian prelate
 Researcher discovers 1942 letter to Pope Pius XII’s secretary on Nazi war crimes
 Citing safety concerns, early music ensemble cancels concerts at Cleveland parishes
 Cardinal Cupich challenges Jesuit universities to offer course on Jesus, go beyond diversity, equity, and inclusion
 Syriac Catholic bishops’ ordinary synod in Iraq called ‘unprecedented historical event’
 Canada’s bishops address ongoing search for Indigenous graves amid calls for greater accuracy
 Bishops of Panama: Catholics must not attend SSPX Masses
 Priest kidnapped in southeast Nigeria
 Historic twin marches for life in Germany face disruptions and defiance
 Basilica, 2 other churches vandalized in Maine city
 Arrests made in theft of tabernacle from Texas parish

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Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

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Today's Memorial of Saints Cornelius (d. 253) and Cyprian (190-258) commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first anti-pope, who believed that apostates…

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