Headlines for October 06, 2021

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Vatican court rebukes prosecution in financial trial
 Theme of Pope’s general audience: ‘Christ has set us free’
 ‘Shame and horror’: French bishops react to report on sexual abuse of 216,000 children
 As Legion of Christ fought sex abuse claims, secret trusts sheltered millions offshore
 Pope Francis prays for victims following report on clerical sexual abuse in France
 Do not confuse utility with happiness, Pope tells pontifical academy conference participants
 Hostility, conflict are fruits of the Devil, Pope tells Vatican police
 In video message, Pope encourages young people to create a new economy
 Belarusian government steps in to defend Catholic priests
 Status report on 18 state AG investigations into Catholic dioceses and abuse
 Vietnamese priest calls state media attacks against him ‘slander’
 A new Catholic Bishops Conference of Central Asia is born

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Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac (1735-1839), priest and martyr, and companions, martyrs. St. Andrew was one of 117 people who were martyred in Vietnam between 1820 and 1862. The last of the martyrs were 17 laypersons, one of them a 9-year-old, executed in 1862. The…

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