Headlines for October 16, 2020

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Venezuelan bishops support peaceful protests
 World hunger ‘shameful,’ Pope says in message to FAO
 Leading South Korean prelate calls for unconditional ban on abortion
 Federal judge overturns Tennessee’s law requiring waiting periods for abortions
 Vatican diplomat calls for unified international commitment to protect our common home
 Jewish groups hit NY Governor Cuomo with discrimination suit
 Bible institute not shielded from sex-discrimination lawsuits, federal court rules
 ‘Time is running out’ for Syria, cardinal warns
 Pope Francis names winner of 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to pontifical academy
 Young Brazilian priest killed
 Newspaper investigates past abuse by Toronto’s Basilian priests
 ‘People want to know the truth’ about archbishops’ deaths, Congo prelate says
 Author Thomas Howard dead at 85
 In USA Today op-ed, philosophy professor raps bias against Catholic mothers of large families
 For first time, Brazilian Marian shrine celebrates feast day without pilgrimages
 USCCB book on racial injustice wins children’s book award
 Background: World Mission Sunday
 As abuse report looms, new nuncio in Great Britain meets with Pope

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Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology (2004) commemorates today St. Narcissus of Jerusalem (99-215) who was consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem about the year 180. He was already an old man, and God attested his merits by many miracles. The holy bishop had many false accusations against him, but the truth prevailed.…

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