Headlines for September 27, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Abuse scandal in spotlight as Pope visits Belgium
 Vatican Secretary of State demands nuclear disarmament in UN speech
 Service, mission, joy: Pope challenges Luxembourg’s Catholics to evangelize
 Pope Francis, in book foreword, lauds St. John Paul II
 Pew survey finds most Catholics dispute Church teachings
 Cardinal Parolin: Human well-being must be goal in confronting anti-microbial resistance
 Synod of Bishops seen as ‘audience of spectators’

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Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of Thanksgiving Day (USA)

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Today in the United States is the Optional Memorial of Thanksgiving Day in the dioceses of the United States. In 1621 colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition and in 1863 Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday.…

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