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Headlines for October 08, 2019

Ordered from most to least recent.

 As Turkey prepares to invade Syria, prelate warns of suffering children
 Pope offers best wishes to Jewish communities on holy days
 In France, 500,000 march against artificial reproduction
 Vatican spokesman weighs in on Amazon women religious who ‘hear confessions’
 No Irish presence at Cardinal Newman canonization
 Nicaraguan cardinal: pray for those who persecute us
 ‘Wake up, Europe,’ continent’s bishops say in message
 Archbishop Viganò, in brief ‘fraternal correction,’ warns pastors against silence
 As unrest in Ecuador worsens, bishops call for peace, justice, dialogue
 Burkina Faso: 27 Christians murdered by jihadists in 2019
 3rd sexual abuse lawsuit filed against former Albany bishop
 Over 2,000 aborted fetal remains found in rural Illinois are returned home to Indiana
 Supreme Court returns for high-profile cases on abortion, LGBT, and more
 Congress holds hearing on religious minorities’ fight to remain in Iraq
 British employment tribunal rules against doctor who objects to transgender pronoun policy
 3 current Supreme Court justices attend Red Mass
 ‘From a receiving Church to a missionary Church’: prelate discusses Church in NE India

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Saturday of the First Week of Advent; Opt Mem of St. Nicholas, Bishop

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas of Myra (d. 346). Not much is known about this 4th century bishop, but that doesn't diminish his popularity around the world, both in the East and West. It is known that Nicholas was born in Lycia in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and died in…

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