Headlines for September 20, 2022

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Belgian bishops publish liturgical service for same-sex unions
 Trial set back, but set to go ahead, for Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen
 US bishops release national synthesis outlining common themes raised in synod listening sessions
 Cameroon kidnappers make ransom demand on Church
 Cardinal Krajewski prays at mass grave site in Ukrainian city
 Vatican won’t add ‘Holy Spouses’ feast to universal calendar
 Patriarch Kirill declares the futility of attempts to intimidate the Russians
 Karnataka’s upper house approves toughest anti-conversion law
 Vatican organizes conference on ‘holiness today’
 Queen Elizabeth’s role in two churches—Anglican and Presbyterian—recalled
 Sostituto travels to East Timor, opens nunciature
 Irish Primate pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth, ‘courageous peacemaker’
 Ukrainian seminarians prepare for priesthood in time of war
 Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza, former USCCB president, dies at 91

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Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot

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Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…

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