Headlines for September 20, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Divorce is unconstitutional, say bishops in Philippines
 Ministry is a gift to be contemplated, Pope preaches at weekday Mass
 Biotech executive affirms harvesting brains from intact unborn babies
 Citing abortion concerns, Canadian bishops review their relief and development agency’s partnerships
 Chinese agents tailed Cardinal Zen at Fatima
 Leading Nigerian prelate urges government to protect citizens from attacks
 Eritrean bishops protest government seizure of Catholic schools
 Villanova theologian foresees robot priests
 Lay group organizes to fill Detroit’s inner-city churches
 Never forget the horrors of martial law, Philippine bishops urge
 Priest accused of ‘forced conversion’ in Jharkhand released on bail
 South Korea announces new measures to counter population decline
 Pope donates funds from auctioned Lamborghini to rebuild Haitian seminary, school
 Blood of St. Januarius liquefies on feast day
 Maine bishop speaks out against physician-assisted suicide, taxpayer funding of abortions
 Holy Land: Catholic spokesman weighs in on Israeli election deadlock
 Cardinal-designate discusses fruits of ‘human fraternity’ document
 New Luxembourg cardinal spent more than 2 decades in Japan

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Leo the Great (400-461), during whose pontificate the Council of Chalcedon (451) defined that Christ is one divine person with two natures, divine and human. It was a confirmation of his Epistola Dogmatica (Tomus) to the Patriarch Flavian of Constantinople.…

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