Headlines for September 23, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Cardinal Kasper repeats worries over German ‘Synodal Path’
 UK court rejects Down-syndrome advocate’s challenge to abortion law
 Catholic leaders urge humane treatment for Haitian migrants as numbers grow
 Council of Cardinals meets with Pope to discuss next Synod of Bishops
 It is a sin to refuse Covid vaccine, Indonesian archbishop preaches
 Vatican diplomat calls for universal access to clean water
 US House committee approves radical abortion bill
 Poland’s bishops were slow to confront abuse scandal, Church officials write
 Afghan Christian refugees meet with Pope
 US prelate warns of ‘trans’ seminary candidates
 Armenian Catholic Patriarch elected
 +Bishop John McCormack, 86
 Catholics in Africa celebrate Congo Basin, call to fight climate change
 Group fights anti-Catholic bigotry in Scotland
 8 elderly nuns in Manila succumb to Covid; outbreak hits seminary
 Pope receives Paralympic, Olympic athletes

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Friday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Januarius, Bishop & Martyr; Ember Friday

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Januarius (d. 304). Very little is known about this martyr saint. He was Bishop of Benevento in Campania. He died near Naples, about the year 304, martyred under the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. Around the year 400 the relics of St. Januarius were moved to Naples,…

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