Headlines for October 09, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Brooklyn diocese sues Gov. Cuomo over capacity rules for churches
 New Jersey Covid limits on indoor church services are upheld
 Pope encourages pontifical council’s women’s group in its reflections
 Vatican not optimistic on status of banished Belarus archbishop
 Vatican diplomat: Focus on small businesses, ‘informal workers’ in Covid economic policies
 Cardinal Müller: Catholic politicians must fight abortion, euthanasia
 Congressman recalls Chinese bishop, jailed 36 years ago
 New Orleans archbishop rededicates parish altar following priest’s arrest
 Impeded by pandemic crisis, dreams and goals of Amazon synod endure
 Nearly 4,000 new students at Catholic schools in Boston
 ‘Hate speech’ in the Turkish press is rampant
 Some theologians question CDF’s request that dissident Irish priest affirm Catholic teaching
 Video released for October papal prayer intention
 Americans surveyed on God and Covid
 Jerusalem archbishop reforms legal structure of Latin Patriarchate
 US bishops to vote for chairmen of 8 standing committees

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Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902). St. Maria was born near Ancona (Italy), the daughter of a poor peasant family. Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety. When she was twelve she was a victim of assault. She preferred to die rather than…

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