Headlines for October 09, 2024

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Rare public conflict at Vatican over laicization of Argentine priest
 Pope, at general audience, reflects on the Holy Spirit in the Acts of the Apostles
 Synod, October 8: final document commission members chosen; leading Latin American prelate raises prospect of married priests
 Synod names commission to prepare final document
 Priest shot and killed in Cameroon
 Vatican diplomat calls for renewed international action to combat ‘scourge of drug use’
 Colorado court dismisses case against cake artist
 Vatican calls attention to efforts by Pius XII to save Jews
 USCCB, Georgia bishops intervene on behalf of death row inmate
 Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre, dead at 79
 Georgia Supreme Court reinstates 6-week abortion ban while appeal is heard

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Wed17 September
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Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor; Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin & Doctor; Ember Wednesday

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Today the Church celebrates two Optional Memorials: St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor (1542-1621) was born in Montepulciano, Italy, and died in Rome. The son of noble parents, he entered the Society of Jesus, finishing his theological studies at Louvain, Belgium. His services to the Church…

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