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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Fri23 January
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Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon & Martyr (USA); Opt Mem of St. Marianne Cope, Virgin (USA)

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In the United States the Optional Memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa (d. 304) is transferred from January 22 in the Universal Calendar to January 23. He was one of the greatest deacons of the Church. He was born in Huesca, Spain, suffered martyrdom in Valencia in the persecution under Diocletian.…

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