Headlines for September 22, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 At weekly audience, Pope recaps trip to Hungary, Slovakia
 Pope: In the Cross, God’s mercy embraces every aspect of humanity
 Do not compromise doctrinal truths, nuncio tells German bishops
 Vatican instructs Heralds of the Gospel to close its boarding schools
 Indian cardinal defuses tensions following bishop’s remarks on jihad
 Mexico’s top court rejects conscience-protection clause in health law
 Smaller Catholic colleges thrive as national enrollments take a hit
 ‘Build a Church that goes to the peripheries,’ Cardinal Czerny tells group of US bishops
 Iraqi archbishop concerned about end of US combat mission
 Sunni, Shi’ite leaders to meet in Iraq?
 President of Catholic University of America announces retirement
 After outcry, Catholic school renews job offer to lesbian coach
 Bishop pens ‘accessible and comprehensive history’ of the sexual revolution
 +Bishop Anthony Pilla, 88
 Fire damages historic Catholic church in Ukraine

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Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the…

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